According to statistics of events detected by Kaspersky Fraud Prevention, the share of account takeovers in the finance industry have increased from 34% in 2019 to 54% in 2020.

Questions:

1. What are the two most common schemes to get access to a bank account?
2. How often are legitimate remote administration tools misused to gain access to user accounts?
3. The importance of digital financial services and e-commerce during the COVID crisis is thought to cause a spike in what type of techniques that are exploited by cybercriminals?

Source:

Staff. (2021).Account takeover incidents in finance industry up by 20% in 2020: Kaspersky. The News Minute, Feb. 15 (Retrievable online at https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/account-takeover-incidents-finance-industry-20-2020-kaspersky-143456)