Swiss Security Barometer alerts against banking Trojans
The Swiss Security Barometer is compiled monthly by Symantec for Computerworld. In March 2017, two things are striking: on the one hand, attacks have increased across the board compared to the previous month. On the other hand, large increases were registered both in the number of online banking Trojans detected and in the number of network attacks.
The Swiss Security Barometer, conducted by Symantec, highlights a "dramatic increase in intercepted online banking Trojans in Switzerland." However, the security overview reveals many more findings about online banking Trojans. There was a whopping 117 percent increase in blocked banking Trojans - "from 64 to 139, which is more than double."
As a result, Switzerland now ranks 23rd in the international security comparison. The increase in the number of prevented network attacks was also dramatic. They rose by almost 63 percent to 35,192 (rank 24).
Beware of scripts
The increase in blocked malware was not quite as sharp, namely by 20 percent, but remained at a respectable level of 59,480 pieces. Particular caution should be exercised in this context with scripts. "More than half of the malware found its way onto the computer via VisualBasic scripts or JavaScript email attachments," as Candid Wüest, Threat Researcher at Symantec Switzerland, reports.
