Uptick in Ransomware, Mobile Banking Malware

[silversurfer]

Ransomware dominated the first half of 2019, while mobile banking malware threats grew by more than 50% from 2018 to 2019, according to Check Point’s Mid-Year Trends Report.
 
“This year collaborations between threat actors allowed even more destructive attacks that paralyzed numerous organizations worldwide. What ends with a ransomware attack usually starts with a more silent sequence of bot infections,” the report said. 
 
Though there was an 18% decrease in the number of global organizations impacted by crypto-miners from 2018 to 2019, the report found that there was a sharp increase in supply chain attacks. “Software supply chain attacks attracted public and government attention,” the report said. 
 
“In such attacks threat actors inject malicious code into components of legitimate applications, victimizing a large number of unsuspecting users. The accumulation of several cases since the beginning of the year led the American government to devote special attention to this evolving threat and will soon publish official recommendations on ways to minimize the impact of such attacks.”
 
In addition, the vast majority (90%) of attacks leveraged older vulnerabilities that were registered in 2017 and earlier, and more than 20% of attacks used vulnerabilities that are at least seven years old, according to the research.       

SOURCE: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/ne...re-mobile/

[darktwilight]

As long as there are states where intelligence agencies
Develop and use exploit and malware yourself,
instead of protecting their citizens from such dangers.
If such dangers continue to rise in percentage terms.

the WannaCry attack that paralyzed computers around the world in mid-May and affected various companies. The first - as yet unconfirmed - analyses show infections with the blackmail Trojan Petya, which encrypts files on infected computers. The files are to be released again against payment of a ransom, but there is no relying on it. The wave of attacks allegedly uses another vulnerability discovered by the Equation Group, allegedly part of the NSA. Its arsenal had been published by a hacker group called Shadow Brokers.


https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Ru...57047.html

Whom such tools & malware stolen
or be changed who protects us?
 

City Power has been hit by a Ransomware virus. it has encrypted all our databases, applications and network. Currently our ICT department is cleaning and rebuilding all impacted applications.^GR
https://twitter.com/CityPowerJhb/status/...7950093313

Ransomware attacks on US cities
Mayor vows not to pay ransom to hackers
Several cities in the USA have been victims of ransomware attacks in recent months. The perpetrators paralyzed urban computer systems and demanded a ransom. 227 mayors now announced that they would never pay.
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpoli...77391.html

For the people who haven't noticed it yet,
since the beginning of the year, a wave of
 Cryptotrojans and Ransomware on the Road 
trying to extort money from companies and government agencies around the world.

For some of this malware, malware experts say 
that they can only come from secret services of states.

That's really sad.