Financial threats in H1 2019

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Contents

Introduction and methodology
Main findings:
Threats to PC: banking malware and phishing
Geography
Threats to mobile platforms
Conclusion and recommendations
To protect against financial threats, Kaspersky recommends that users:
To protect your business from financial malware, Kaspersky security specialists advise

Introduction and methodology

Financial cyberthreats are malicious programs that attack users of online banking services, electronic money, cryptocurrency and other similar services, as well as threats aimed at gaining access to financial organizations and their infrastructure. Kaspersky experts regularly analyze the statistics that the company’s products anonymously send to the cloud infrastructure of the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) in case users agree to transfer such data. In order to study the threat landscape of the financial sector, the researchers analyzed cases of malicious activity on the devices of private users of Kaspersky’s security solutions. Statistics on corporate users were collected from corporate security solutions, after the customers agreed to share their data with Kaspersky. The information obtainedwas compared with data fromthe same period in 2018, to track the trends in the development of malware. users We looked at quarterly results in order to compare statisitics for PC users, as we were able to divide the data into two catergories – corporate and private users. Traditionally, the second and the third quarter might differ from the first and the fourth as these people often go on vaction and there less of corporate financial activity in these periods. The most active malware families were then analyzed.

Main findings:

* In the first half of 2019, more than 430,000 unique users were attacked by financial threats – seven percent more than during the same period in 2018
* The number of financial attacks in the first half of 2019 was 10,493,792 – 93% more than in the first and second quarter of 2018
* The number of malware samples from financial threats received by Kaspersky in the first half of 2019 was 5,242,462 – 74% more than the previous year
* The countries with the largest share of users attacked by financial malware were China and Belarus (2.3% each). In second and third place were Venezuela (2.2%) and South Korea (2.1%), respectively
* During the first half of 2019, Kaspersky blocked more than 339,000 attempts to switch users to phishing pages pretending to be big banks
* 438,709 unique users encountered mobile financial threats in the first half of 2019 – 23% less than in the same period in 2018
* The number of mobile financial attacks in the first half of 2019 was 3,730,378 – 107% more than in the first half of 2018

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