Are banks the main target of cybercriminals?
Experts explain that the main goal of today's cyber-fraudsters is small regional banks. Network attacks have become more sophisticated, and criminals are more resourceful. Almost all hackers use the methods of social engineering. It is estimated that about 7% of the 1,000 people who received a letter containing the virus will certainly open it.
In 2015, the most popular scheme of criminal groups was the infection of simultaneously the largest number of people through the website.
Searching for the Android users.
In recent times, cases of funds thefts from bank's customers' accounts through Android-Trojans have become more frequent. Modern man is inextricably linked to his personal smartphone. Users of phones created on the basis of Android, most often become victims of hackers, since this operating system gives its customers a space for making personal information on the Internet. Experts note that all modern banking viruses that allow you to steal funds automatically are written specifically for Android.
The Gorkow Trojan is an assistant to hackers.
This Trojan, otherwise known as Metel, enables cybercriminals to run programs, manage the keyboard and computer mouse remotely, in parallel with the system operator. It is believed that the virus Gorkow has already infected 250,000 computers and over a hundred financial companies of our planet.
Hackers and ATMs.
ATMs are the weak link of all financial institutions. It is noteworthy that banks pay the least attention to their protection. Modern hackers manage to penetrate into the internal communications of machines, gaining access to all operations of it. Specialists on cyber attacks say that in 2015 the damage from this type of crime in Russia amounted to billions of rubles.
Indirect cybercrime.
Another method used by scammers is cyber attacks, which are aimed not at banks, but at their partners. Today, financial institutions need to be on the alert - criminals are able to obtain the necessary information through partner companies that have access, for example, to the necessary client deals. Experts warn that, as a rule, attacks on partners are carried out by hacking the victim's website (the bank's client).
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