PandaLabs:downturn in the stock market could be caused by the increase in cyber-prestupnichestva
November 6, 2008, 4:24 pm
PandaLabs warns that recorded a direct relationship between the recent volatility in the stock market and the growing number of new threats. Experts believe the laboratory PandaLabs, these two events are linked more closely than previously thought, but the recent volatility in the stock market has accelerated the growth of targeted cyber-attacks and their corresponding impact on the economy during the last half months. In addition, analysts at the lab PandaLabs believe that the recent surge of growth in malicious software can be linked to the fact that cyber-criminals now have fewer probable targets, as a result of consolidation within the banking system. The following data reflect the key opening PandaLabs:
The average American stock market has suffered from declining from 3 to 7 percent from September 1 to October 9. But activity in the markets of malware was the opposite:it has significantly increased, while stock markets fell activity.
From 5 to 16 September, all the indices Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ, SP 500 and the Composite Index went away from the positive range of 0. 0 to almost negative in 3. 0 percent or below. In the same period indices Spanish IBEX 35 index and London FTSE 100 also suffered significant losses. At the same time, there was significant growth of malicious threats that take place daily, for example, from 8 to 10 September, the number of threats that are detected per day increased from 10, 150 to more than 24000.
from 14 to 16 September, meaning the stock market fell to -0. 5 to -5. 5 percent, while the number of daily threats increased by 50 percent each day from 8276 - on September 14, to 31404 - on 16 September.
According to PandaLabs now laboratory is developing a new strategy that will answer the perpetrators to consolidate in the banking sector as evidenced in the introduction of several governments multimillion-dollar package to combat the crisis. As a result of the consolidation of fewer banks will continue to exist in the long run, and a sense of instability in the financial community to turn the latter into less attractive target. This situation has increased the number of other types of malicious software, such as advertising, which under normal circumstances would have been in second place after the Trojans.
