According to the report, published in the , the list of several attacks is led by Russia (45.7% of attacks ), followed by India (6.8%) and Kazakhstan (4.1%). The top ten finishes with Brazil (1.6%).
Have malicious virtual shares in the financial area mainly affect Brazil, where 299,830 users were attacked, including logins and stolen passwords. Russia is second on the list, holding 251 917 attacks. And in third place is Germany, with 155,773 users attacked.
The list of several attacks against computers running OS X operating systems (Apple products) is led by the US with 39, 14% (98,077 infected computers). In second place is Germany, with 12.56% of the attacks (31 466 computers), and the third is Japan (5.51%, 13 808 computers). Russia is fifth here (4.87%, 12,207) and Brazil, ninth (2.22%, 5558).
“These figures make us think a little [.. .] Our banking system is very grounded in technology. Access to banking technology has grown, “said Jorge Duarte Pires Valerio, electronic engineer and deputy director of the Engineering Faculty of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) in an interview with broadcaster Sputnik, which can access through this page.
In addition to the victim, Brazil is also a major producer of malicious virtual applications. Another list published in Kaspersky report shows two Brazilian manufacturing Trojans, the ChePro and Lohmys (192 229 and 121 439 users attacked, respectively).
A trojan is a type of malware (application malicious digital) which is difficult to be distinguished. Software of this type “mask up” to look like a normal file or an image. When you open such a file, the virus starts to be executed, without the victim know it, most of the time.
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