Showing posts with label malware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label malware. Show all posts
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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Saturday 3 October 2015
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:
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"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.
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Saturday 12 September 2015
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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Sunday 5 April 2015
IBM uncovers new, sophisticated bank transfer cyber scam
From Reuters –
“IBM has uncovered a sophisticated fraud scheme run by a well- funded Eastern European gang of cyber criminals that uses a combination of phishing, malware and phone calls that the technology company says has netted more than $1 million from large and medium-sized U.S. companies.
The scheme, which IBM security researchers have dubbed "The Dyre Wolf," is small in comparison with more recent widespread online fraud schemes but represents a new level of sophistication.”
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Labels:
cyber crime,
fraud,
IBM,
malware,
phishing,
technology
Friday 8 August 2014
Bitcoin A Major Target In Financial Malware Attacks
From Tech News
“Security firm Kaspersky Lab has found that bitcoin is the target in more than one fifth of all malware attacks aimed at victims’ money. According to Kaspersky’s latest threat report, entitled ‘IT Threat Evolution Q2 2014’, bitcoin mining malware accounted for 14% of attacks in the second quarter of 2014, while bitcoin wallet stealers accounted for 8%.
Keyloggers, which can be used to compromise both bitcoin and banking services, also made the list, with 4% of all attacks attributed to various forms of key logging malware. Traditional banking malware still leads the way with 74%, but considering the size of the bitcoin economy it is clear that bitcoin users and operators face a significant likelihood of being subjected to an attack.”
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Labels:
Bitcoin,
financial services,
malware,
risk
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