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SecurityScorecard Releases Security Benchmark Report, Finds Banking Malware Targets Employees, And Partner Company Employees, Across All IndustriesNEW YORK, July 1, 2015 SecurityScorecard, the leading non-intrusive threat benchmarking platform that allows companies to holistically identify, mitigate and prevent security threats in real time, released a major research report which explores the current state of banking malware for the first half of 2015. The study finds the primary motivator behind banking malware attacks is to capture credentials, financial data, and personal information from employees, and partner company employees, across industries. Then apply this stolen information in fraudulent wire transfers or fake automated clearing house (ACH) transactions to steal funds. SecurityScorecard sinkholes found 11,952 infections affecting 4,702 organizations and identified the top banking malware families to be Dridex, Bebloh and TinyBanker. The key findings include:
To gather these insights, SecurityScorecard's research and development team analyzed banking malware and discovered distinct patterns of obfuscation and multiple, evolving malicious code bases. They found that the top three banking malware families being captured are all direct variants of Zeus, or mimic Zeus-like functionalities. These malware attacks are the preferred method of obtaining stolen credentials, especially when traditional attacks on web applications or network-based attacks are being monitored by internal security teams. SecurityScorecard will continue to publish insights from its growing stream of proprietary data each quarter. The full report can be downloaded here: http://info.securityscorecard.com/Banking-Malware-2015-Report. For more on SecurityScorecard, visit the SecurityScorecard blog: http://blog.securityscorecard.com/. About SecurityScorecard SecurityScorecard provides precise global threat intelligence and risk awareness continuously and non-intrusively so businesses and their partners can collaboratively predict and remediate data security issues. SecurityScorecard customers are Fortune 500 leaders in financial services, retail, healthcare and manufacturing industries including Trinet, Gilt Groupe, Deerfield Management, Shutterstock, and Harry's. SecurityScorecard was founded in 2013 by CEO Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and COO Sam Kassoumeh, both former Gilt Groupe heads of security and compliance, and is headquartered in New York. SecurityScorecard investors include Sequoia Capital, Evolution Equity Partners, Boldstart Ventures, Atlas Ventures and others.
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