More than 100 banks and financial institutions worldwide suffer unprecedented cyber theft

Absrtact: Information Security Service provider Kaspersky Lab recently released its latest Network security research report, saying that more than 100 banks and financial institutions around the world have experienced unprecedented cyber theft, estimated at $1 billion trillion. The report says the implementation of cyber criminals

The Information Security Service provider Kaspersky Lab recently released its latest Network security research report, saying that more than 100 banks and financial institutions around the world have experienced unprecedented cyber theft, with an estimated $1 billion trillion in losses.

The report says the gangs that commit cyber crimes are "Carbanak", noting that their members are mainly from Russia, Ukraine and China. The financial institutions that have suffered are across more than 30 countries, including China, Russia, the United States, Germany, Ukraine and Canada.

In this regard, Kaspersky believes that cyber crime has entered a new stage, that is, the Internet thieves began to focus directly on the bank rather than the end user.

The trick is to infect the corporate network of financial institutions with viruses, and then implant video surveillance software that uses the software to view and record everything on the screen of the bank's staff to obtain confidential information for subsequent crimes. For example, transfer money from bank accounts to your account, or directly to the ATM machine at a predetermined time to vomit directly.

Obviously such action takes time. The report noted that each time the network theft implementation cycle of 2-4 months, the maximum amount of theft can reach 10 million U.S. dollars.