Think Again If You Think Your Banking Info Is Safe!

With scareware infections on the rise, more and more people are finding their private banking information has been compromised. With an estimated 485,000 different takes on the Antivirus scareware in just the first six months of 2009, the number of infected computers has grown as well.

More than half (54 per cent) or 11.9 million of the computers scanned by Panda Security, which contributed to APWG's report, were infected with some form of malware. Banking trojan infections detected by the group almost tripled (up 186 per cent) between Q4 2008 and Q2 2009.