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Financial cyberthreats in 2025 and the outlook for 2026
Kaspersky's 2025 financial threat report found that while traditional PC banking malware continued its decline, infostealers surged 59% globally on PCs, with over one million online banking accounts from the world's 100 largest banks freely circulating on dark web markets — 74% of compromised payment cards remained valid as of March 2026. Phishing shifted away from bank impersonation toward digital services (16.15%) and e-commerce (14.17%), with Netflix, Apple, and Spotify now the most impersonated brands, while Mastercard displaced PayPal as the top payment system lure. Mobile banking malware grew 1.5x year-over-year. For 2026, Kaspersky projects a more data-driven, automated threat landscape, with organizations urged to prioritize identity protection and real-time cross-channel threat intelligence as infostealer-fueled credential markets continue to scale.
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