Online Fraud: Kaspersky Presents Safe Money
- Kaspersky launches the latest versions of Kaspersky Internet Security and Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Among other evolutions, Internet Security includes Safe Money, designed to fight online fraud (e-commerce and e-banking). Among displayed features:
- Default software activation when browsing some payment pages and banking portals (these lists can be completed manually),
- Segregation of payment operations to limit compromising,
- Verification of sensitive Web pages (malware, phishing pages, etc.),
- scans of the workstation to fight all threats likely to impact payments,
- Virtual keypad to type in banking information (and avoid keyloggers).
- Safe Money successfully passed the tests ran last July by the independent lab Matousec, avoiding all 15 trailed threats (source: Matousec, Online Payments Threats, 3 July 2012). Also, both these new software have the Automatic Exploit Prevention module built-in to reduce the risk of breaches exploitation before the user gets to update the apps and before vendors manage to release required patches.
Source: Kaspersky press release
- The vendor is expanding the reach of its suites to encompass transactional contexts and add in various threats likely to compromise the users’ banking and personal data. Kaspersky Lab reminds that over 1,400 banking malware are created each day.
- Kaspersky is used to focusing of user education (see December 2011 Insight); the developer helps them grow aware of online threats through new features (Automatic Exploit Prevention): security breaches are highlighted as the needs for software updates that users have in charge as soon as patches are released (Kaspersky has detected over one million malware designed to exploit breaches in widely spread programmes during the first quarter 2012 only).