Search Security: Malware authors have had great success targeting financial institutions in recent years, and in turn those organizations have a vested interest in improving their banking botnet detection capabilities. However, one expert says financial firms are failing because they ignore unusual network traffic.
Jason Milletary, senior security researcher with Dell Inc.’s SecureWorks unit, which recently released a report on the top banking botnets that the security vendor observed in 2013, said that most banking botnets have been utilizing the same attack and communications techniques for years, largely because enterprises have been unable to disrupt their success.
