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Kaspersky report tracks financial malware attacks in 2018

March 7, 2019

Last year, 889,452 users of Kaspersky Lab solutions were attacked by banking Trojans, an increase of 16 percent compared with 2017, according to the cybersecurity firm's new report, Financial Cyberthreats in 2018.

The research also shows that Russia became the most targeted nation in 2018, accounting for more than 22 percent of global users attacked with banking malware, a press release said. 

Russia is followed by Germany (more than 20 percent), India (nearly 4 percent), Vietnam (3 percent), Italy (2 percent), the United States (2 percent) and China (2 percent).

Russia, South Africa, and the United States were the top three countries in percentage of users attacked by Android banking malware.

Additional findings from the report:

• Financial phishing decreased from 53.8 percent of all detected phishing to 44.7 percent, still accounting for almost half of all detections.
• The share of phishing-related attacks on payment systems and online stores accounted for almost 14 percent and 8.9 percent, respectively, slightly less than in 2017.
• The share of financial phishing encountered by Mac users grew from 55.6 percent in 2017 to 57.6 percent.
• Zbot and Gozi are the most widespread banking malware families (26 percent and 20 percent, respectively), followed by SpyEye (15.6 percent).
• The number of users who encountered Android banking malware more than tripled to 1,799,891 worldwide.
• Just three banking malware families accounted for attacks on the vast majority of Android users (around 85 percent).