Panda launches Targeted Attack Alert to protect online banks

Panda Security has launched its Targeted Attack Alert Service to protect online banks and businesses against attacks from malware designed to target specific online businesses.

The most dangerous attacks are those using banker trojans, designed to steal confidential bank details, credit card numbers, etc. The additional danger of these trojans is that they are designed to target specific companies, either directly or by stealing its clients’ personal data, which is then used to make fraudulent transactions.

In 2006, trojans accounted for 53% of all new malware created, and 20% of these were banker trojans. So far in 2007, there have already been almost 40% more attacks than in the whole of 2006.

Panda’s Targeted Attack Alert Service is aimed at the financial sector and online businesses (payment platforms, e-commerce, etc.) and is provided directly by the Antifraud Surveillance Department at PandaLabs. This department is able to monitor the evolution of malicious code, through 5 mln behavioral analysis sensors deployed across more than 150 countries.

Panda also has a network of hidden ‘honeypots’ distributed across cyber-space and a centralized online malware detection and processing service. This allows PandaLabs to detect rapidly any new targeted attack that occurs, and immediately inform the companies involved. This in turn allows banks and companies to take appropriate mitigating action, and prevent catastrophes that could affect millions of clients.

“The benefits this service offers companies in the financial sector include proactive risk management to counter identity theft, identification of compromised users and control of online fraud”, explains Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs.

The Targeted Attack Alert Service is sold as both an annual subscription and as report packs.