430 thousand cases of malicious financial software in the first half of 2019

Kaspersky's researchers found that in the first half of 2019, 430,000 users were faced with malicious software aimed at stealing money, currency and online payment services, an increase of 7 % compared to the same period last year. About a third of these were "30.9%". Among professional users, double the rate found in the first half of 2018 "15.3%".
Stealing money
Malicious financial software – commonly referred to as banking Trojans – is designed to steal money and financial data, as well as to provide users with access to badets and financial devices, threats that have long been a problem for many. of electronic threats. Kaspersky 's data on new examples of these threats consistently show that malware designed to steal money is "very active and dangerous", especially when it' s all about. Work environments As most enterprise networks rely on connected devices that could make the whole business vulnerable if its machines were in danger.
Typical malware vectors include unsolicited email and phishing web pages. These may appear to be real official sites affiliated with official entities, but are actually created by subversive entities for the purpose of stealing access information to access accounts. Other types of sensitive information During the course of the In the first half of 2019, Kaspersky researchers discovered more than 339,000 phishing attacks on web pages disguised as websites of major banks.
Families
The researchers also compiled a list of the most common Trojans, used to attack business users, and found that 40% of the financial threats to business users came from the RTM bank, one of the most dangerous types of malware business in 2018, followed by a 15% Trojan horse, which is a destructive Trojan horse due to its ability to automatically spread through the material deficiencies as soon as he enters the corporate network before additional threats are uploaded to the victim's device. 12% Of the detected threats.
The threats
Kaspersky found that his status was different: Zbot tops the list of malware that attempted to attack 26% of individuals, who steal users' login information via remote control option, followed by Trojans. RTM "and" Emotet "mentioned above, RTM in 2018 was entirely aimed at offensive companies, while the first half of 2019 indicates that it targets a large number of individual users.
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Experts recommend the following measures to protect the company from malicious financial software:
• Provide staff with electronic security awareness training, especially to account managers, to determine how to distinguish phishing attacks and avoid creating attachments or clicking on links. anonymous or suspicious addresses.
• Install the latest patches and software updates for all software used in the enterprise.
• Prevent the installation of software from unknown sources.
• Integrate threat information with information security management, security events, and controls in enterprise systems to access key and latest threat data.
On the other hand, Kaspersky recommends that individual users:
• Avoid installing software from unknown sources and disable this option in the mobile device settings.