Banking malware attacks go up in three months
Thursday, June 4, 2020 0:01
By KEVIN ROTICH |
The uptick in detections is attributed to malicious spam attachments that were observed at the beginning of the year.
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The global banking sector witnessed an increase in malware attacks in quarter one of 2020 amid adoption of online banking following the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Banker', which accounted for more than a third of all banking malware detections.
Ursnif saw the most significant change — a jump from 5.9 percent of banking malware detections in quarter four 2019 to 13 percent in quarter one 2020," latest Threat Report shows.
The uptick in detections is attributed to malicious spam attachments that were observed at the beginning of the year.
