Majority Of New Malware Banker Trojans

Majority Of New Malware: Banker Trojans

Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2010-04-01

Unfortunately for the rest of the world, PandaLabs has determined that
malware makers are still hard at work. And unfortunately for everybody's
finances, malware makers aren't content to churn out little "gotcha"
tricks, instead focusing more than anything on banker Trojans.

Majority Of New Malware: Banker Trojans

Here are all of the unpleasant details in one bite: PandaLabs declared
in a statement, "[T]he amount of new malware in circulation has
continued to increase at a record pace. In this first quarter, the most
prevalent category was once again banker Trojans, accounting for 61
percent of all new malware."

Sean-Paul Correll, a threat researcher at PandaLabs, then followed up
these observations by saying, "The growing prevalence of banker Trojans
signals to us that online accounts for both consumers and businesses
continue to be increasingly attractive financial targets for
cybercriminals."

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