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hacker the botnet collected a massive dump of stolen personal information, credentials,
banking information and credit card numbers of 3.7 Million users.

Banks declined to comment the event but security experts don't believe realistic the
threat, but we must consider that banking is even more target of cyber attacks.
Cybercrime is adopting sophisticated techniques and advaced malware to avoid
detection and monetize its effort, we have read of a new generation of malware that is
able to operate with resilient infrastructure based on P2P protocol and hosted on Tor
Network like the last varial of Zeur designed for 64 bit systesm.

The number of security incidents that involve wide audience is increasing, last in order
of time is the data breach that suffered the US retailer Target.

Another concerning trend in the cyber criminal ecosystem is the cyber extortion, an
illegal practice that is diffusing, malware authors that request the payment of a fee to
unlock files encrypted by ransomware (e.g. cryptolocker) or gangs of cybercriminals that
threaten private companies, including banks, with cyber attacks like DDoS and
requesting the payment of a fee to stop the offensive.

Source: Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief, CDM

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