Online bank accounts targeted more than five million times in three months

Online users in the UAE were heavily targeted by cyber criminals in the third quarter of the year. More than 5 million cases were discovered in 213 countries. That’s the findings of a study from Kaspersky Labs, which sheds light on the increase in mobile threats and the attempted theft of money from online bank accounts. The UAE stood in the 9th place in the IT Threat Evolution report, with 2.54% of its users attacked by banking Trojans. In Q3 of 2015, Kaspersky Lab’s solutions blocked almost 626,000 attempts to launch malware capable of stealing money via access to users’ online banking. This number is 17.2% lower than in the second quarter of the year, although it is a 5.7% increase from the same period in 2014.