Q3 in figures
– 323,374 new malicious mobile programs were detected by Kaspersky Lab mobile security products in Q3. This is a 10.8% increase from Q2 2015 and a 3.1-fold increase since Q1 2015.
– During the quarter, there were 5.68 million notifications about attempted malware infections to steal money from users via online access to bank accounts.
According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab solutions detected and repelled a total of 235.4 million malicious attacks from online resources located all over the world. This is 38% lower than in Q2.
– 75.4 million unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components. This is 16% higher than in Q2.
– Kaspersky Lab mobile security products detected:
o 1.6 million malicious installation packages
o 323,374 new malicious mobile programs
o 2516 mobile banker Trojans
Mobile threats
During the quarter, displaying intrusive advertisements to consumers remained the main method of profiting from mobile threats. Mobile adware continued to increase and accounted for more than half of all detected mobile threats. Some of these mobile attack methods are using superuser privileges (root access) to conceal their presence in the systems folder, making it very difficult to combat them. On the other hand, SMS Trojans decreased, accounting for only 6.2% of mobile threats during the quarter.
Online financial attacks
Malware attacks to online banking continued during the quarter with over five million notifications of attempted attacks. This trend has slightly decreased from the previous quarter, which showed 5.9 million notifications. In addition, Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked almost 626,000 attempts to launch malware capable of stealing money via access to consumers’ online banking, which is 17.2% lower than in the previous quarter.
The statistics also show that consumers in Austria were attacked by banking Trojans more than any other region – 5% of all Kaspersky Lab users in Austria faced this threat during the quarter. Singapore, last quarter’s leader, was moved to second place (4.2%) and 3% of users in Turkey were under threat (third).
Most of the countries in the geographical top 10 list of banking malware attacks during the quarter have a significant number of online banking users. Of the malware used to target online banking users, Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Upatre was the most prevalent, being used in 63.1% of attempted attacks to steal users’ payment details.
