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Monday, 5 October 2015

Singapore is world's No 1 target for banking trojans: Kaspersky


From DNA –

“Singapore ranks as the top country globally for Kaspersky Lab users being attacked by banking trojans in the second quarter of 2015, the security software company said.

According to a study done recently, 496 Kaspersky Lab users in the city-state had sustained such attacks during that period.

In the second quarter of 2015, Kaspersky Lab solutions had deflected attempts to launch malware capable of stealing money via online banking on the computers of 755,642 users globally.

This is a decrease of 18.7% compared to 735,428 in the previous quarter, the company said in a statement.

Switzerland, Brazil and Australia were next in line in the list of top countries respectively. Hong Kong emerged as the fifth country in the list and also as the only other country in the Asia Pacific region.”

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