Quote:Cyberthreats to financial institutions 2019: overview and predictions

• Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2019
  
• Threat predictions for industrial security in 2019
  
• Cryptocurrency threat predictions for 2019
  
  

Introduction – key events in 2018

The past year has been extremely eventful in terms of the digital threats faced by financial institutions: cybercrime groups have used new infiltration techniques, and the geography of attacks has become more extensive.

Despite this, let’s start the review with a positive trend: in 2018 police arrested a number of well-known cybercrime group members responsible for Carbanak/Cobalt and Fin7, among others. These groups have been involved in attacks on dozens, if not hundreds of companies and financial institutions around the world. Unfortunately, the arrest of group members including the leader of Carbanak, did not lead to a complete halt in activities – in fact, it seemingly started the process of splitting the groups into smaller cells.

The most active actor of 2018 was Lazarus. This group is gradually expanding its arsenal of tools and looking for new targets. The area of interest today includes banks, fin-tech companies, crypto-exchanges, PoS terminals, ATMs, and in terms of geography, we have recorded infection attempts in dozens of countries, most of which are located in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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