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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The hazards of outing ATM malware

From ATM Marketplace -

"In December 2013, Russian antivirus software developer Dr. Web announced that it had added protection to its ATM Shield product to block Trojan.Skimer.18 malware.

Threats followed immediately, according to a post on the Dr. Web blog. A message from either the programmer or the crime syndicate (Dr. Web isn't sure which) read, in part:

• ... the development of Dr.Web_ATM_shield threatens activity of Syndicate with multi-million dollar profit. Hundreds of criminal organizations throughout the world can lose their earnings.
• You have a WEEK to delete all references about ATM.Skimmer from your web resource. Otherwise syndicate will stop cash-out transactions and send criminal for your programmers’ heads.

When Dr. Web proved to be indifferent to the idea of criminal organizations losing their earnings, the "syndicate" firebombed Dr. Web offices. Twice."



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Fresh Banker Trojan Striking Banking Institutions within Japan - IBM

From SPAMfighter -

“IBM the security vendor is warning of one fresh banking Trojan that is striking account holders of twelve and more Japanese banks.

Named "Shifu," which means thief in Japanese, and circulating from April, if not earlier, the Trojan malware is created for attacking Japanese banks as well as culling e-banking systems within Europe. Presently, it is chiefly prevalent inside Japan targeting people with accounts in fourteen financial institutions.”

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