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Even though attacks of this type are relatively new, they cannot be said to be primitive - cybercriminals have done their homework and have previously examined the contacts and suppliers of the attacked companies, as well as the private interests and Internet activity of individual employees. legitimate websites to be infected and spread malware. And if that wasn't enough, these attacks were repeated many times to increase the probability of success. Where is the most money in the bank in? Cybercriminals paid a lot of attention to organizations offering financial services such as banks, investment funds, stock exchanges and currency exchange offices, including those supporting cryptocurrency.
All this according to the principle - if you want to steal, do it where they have the most money. An example of such an attack was carbanak, where malware infiltrated bank networks, searching for critical systems that would allow cybercriminals to withdraw money. In one successful Mobile App Development Service attack, attackers were able to steal up to millions of dollars. Another target of business financial cyberattacks in Our experts have identified ten families of malicious programs designed to steal data from POS terminals, seven of which appeared for the first time in. Blackmailing companies - ransomware also attacks business in.

The number of attacks on businesses using malicious ransomware programs has doubled - Kaspersky solutions lab detected such threats on over thousands of company computers. If we try to think like a cybercriminal, it is not strange - the ransom received from organizations can be much higher than from individuals, and the likelihood of the victim paying is also greater.Many organizations simply cannot function if their information residing on several critical computers or servers is encrypted and inaccessible. Number of years - new malicious programs every day, i.e. cybercriminals are looking for savings in years - there was a sharp increase in the number of new malicious files detected every day by Kaspersky Lab - from in to in. Then the pace began to decline.
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