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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

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We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular. In fact, from January through the end of October, Kaspersky detected more than 2,300 fraudulent global resources aimed at 85,000 potential crypto investors or users who are interested in cryptocurrency mining.

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IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

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If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. In addition to DDoS attacks, it has added spam and calls to clients and partners of the victim company to its toolbox. into the system.

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IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. Non-mobile statistics

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Cybercriminals were spreading malicious documents that exploited CVE-2017-11882 and CVE-2018-0802 , which are the best-known vulnerabilities in the Equation Editor component. The TraderTraitor campaign targets cryptocurrency and blockchain organizations, attacking with malicious crypto applications for both Windows and macOS.

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IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. Non-mobile statistics

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million) including denominated in cryptocurrency; $600,000; 500,000 euros; computer equipment, the crypto wallets that were used to perpetrate crimes, and 20 luxury cars that were purchased with illicitly obtained money.” Adware from the Pirrit family was encountered most frequently out of all macOS threats in the listed countries.

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IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. Non-mobile statistics

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In particular, researchers found Operation In(ter)ception , a campaign operated by North Korean Lazarus group, which targets macOS users looking for cryptocurrency jobs. As usual, our TOP 20 ranking for biggest threats encountered by users of Kaspersky security solutions for macOS were dominated by adware. AdWare.OSX.Amc.e, Bangladesh.

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