Poland haven for cyber criminals. Infected hundreds of thousands of … – Virtual Poland

  280 000 – enough computers in Poland on a given day are infected with malware – According to the data collected for 2014 years by the CERT Poland, operating within NASK research institute. As emphasized by the experts, as many as four of the top ten threats are distributed by cybercriminals are aimed at the e-banking customers.
 

 Among the most dangerous threats in the form of a botnet malware is called ZeroAccess and ZeuS, which also includes the Citadel and its derivatives. In a statement, they took respectively second and third. The biggest botnet in Poland remains Conficker, although its percentage in relation to 2013 decreased by almost 5 percentage points. Interestingly, both the botnet and ninth on the list Virut are malicious software over which cybercriminals no longer control, which means that they are not active at this time. As experts emphasize CERT Poland, their presence in the statement provides, inter alia, that most of the infected computers remain infected for years, sometimes up to the end of the operation of the devices themselves.
 

 Of the ten most common in Poland threats based on malware until four are banking Trojans. Respectively: ZeuS ZeuS GameOver, Bankpatch, Banatrix. The Trojans are in most cases on the infected computer to modify the appearance of the web page of the bank, which cybercriminals have full access to the victim’s account and can transfer funds in it. Except as inform professionals, is Banatrix, which replaces the bank account number in the memory of the browser process, resulting in money instead of getting to the recipient’s bank account cybercriminals.
 

 - If we assume that for every inhabitant of Polish there is one computer, then averaging the results for 2014 years we can say that the day’s infected with malware is a city the size of Katowice. This is best illustrated by the scale of the phenomenon and its potential effects on the functioning of our country – says Piotr Kijewski, head of the CERT Poland. – The increase in cyber activity directed at online banking users in our opinion the most important and the most disturbing trend of the previous year, resulting in a real loss of money many players – he said.
 

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