the Risk of malware through fake e-mails increases. In Malmö are investigating the police, a trojan who reported to have been including banks. And the financial supervisory authority notes that the attacks are increasing in the sector.
A growing problem in the Swedish it-säkerhetshimlen is all of the fake email messages sent.
” e– Mail is so sneaky today. They look very authentic, it is hard to see that it is a fake. You must call the sender and check that he sent the e-mail. It says Jonas Lindebring, cyber-criminal investigators at the company Combitech.
The criminal gangs in Sweden and abroad, who are planting trojans (spyware) in bluffmejl, in order to obtain transparency in the system of accounts and transfers in order to steal large sums of money, develop the technology further. That is the opinion of several experts.
An example of the hones methods took place in Skåne, in the last year. During the late summer of 2015 chose Malmöpolisen to send out e-mails to business owners in the region to warn against it-fraud.
Then they stole cheeky decepticon police e-mails in someone’s computer system, and sent out an identical bluffmejl to different companies.
In the email was an advanced trojan in an attachment.
All of which opened in the annex risked getting their computers infected, reported the Expressen in October 2015.
the Police national bedrägerimyndighet, NBC, described the email as new in its kind.
the New Technology also wrote in the spring about another criminal complaint drawn up by the Malmöpolisen. According to the had unknown offenders have entered "a large number of computer systems of a company.
once again had a smart trojan sent in the different networks. It is, reportedly, able to slip past virusskydden and take into datorsystemens central parts. Thus may the perpetrators get the full transparency in, for example, account management and financial transactions, and be able to execute commands.
the Investigation of the offence, to classify as serious hacking, is ongoing and is led by Björn Svensson, team leader at Malmöpolisens bedrägerisektion. However, he is extremely reticent on the situation in the investigation.
– the confidentiality of preliminary investigation proceedings is, so I can’t comment on this, ” he says.
But according to the newspaper’s sources, the trojan then in January have spread to more computers and networks. Among the affected is reported to authorities, international companies and banks in Sweden are. Amounts in the billions reported to have disappeared. But some cyber-attacks should also have been averted.
Anders Lindgren, market supervisor and in the
Four of these are still ongoing cases that are handled by the device management Control and operational risks, where Anders Lindgren working. He could not comment on individual cases, but declares to finance companies in Sweden are threatened by malicious code.
” I can confirm that it regularly occurring attacks with malware against companies in the financial sector in Sweden.
How has it been like the last year?
– We see a growing trend and the latest year is no exception.
And financing companies expect more attacks.
” Our general impression is that the direct losses in most cases is still limited, but the potential could be substantial. We also see examples of businesses within the sector that increase their resources and budgets on it security, based on the increasing threat of including malicious code, ” says Anders Lindgren.
Jonas Lindebring, Combitech, will help the company’s customers to investigate the intrusion. He shares the picture of that the threat of malware is growing. In 2016, he has seen several cases.
– There is an increasing trend in total. We see more and more påknackningar and try. Usually, thankfully, stopped.
There are also other examples of how technology evolves. Among other things, planted trojans into computers and networks in connection with the denial of service attacks, so-called Ddos-attacks.
– We see combo attacks, where the perpetrators are attacking a part of the network with Ddos, at the same time as they send the trojans into other parts of the network. So when our engineers are busy with extinguishing a fire, is the real target of another attack.
You should be careful with clicking on links and attachments in e-mails. Jonas Lindebring discourages also from to let the e-mail application opens automatically.
the Swedish company’s ability to protect itself?
– I think that Swedish companies are quite good at it, but of an unequal and unfair fight. The bad guys can seize large sums of money. But they fail always.
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