Financial cyberthreats are malicious programs that target users of services such as online banking, e-money, and cryptocurrency, or that attempt to gain access to financial organizations and their infrastructure. These threats are usually accompanied by spam and phishing activities, with malicious users creating fake financial-themed pages and emails to steal victims’ credentials.
In order to study the threat landscape of the financial sector, our researchers analyzed malicious activity on the devices of individual users of Kaspersky’s security solutions. Statistics for corporate users were collected from corporate security solutions, after the customers agreed to share their data with Kaspersky.
The information obtained was compared with data for the same period in 2018 to monitor the trends in malware development.
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Source: Kaspersky