Kaspersky: More Than 1.3 Million Banking Trojan Attacks Detected Throughout 2025

Illustration of trojan attack. (ITSEC Asia)

JAKARTA - global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has officially released the 2025 Security Bulletin, an annual routine report highlighting global cybersecurity trends and predictions.

This year's first edition focused on the financial sector, which is said to be facing a significant increase in threat levels through various attack vectors.

Kaspersky noted that throughout 2025, the financial sector was a rapidly growing threat target. Attacker tactics are also increasingly complex, ranging from the spread of malware through messaging applications, artificial intelligence-based attacks, supply chain compromises, to NFC-based fraud.

The report explained that 8.15 percent of users in the financial sector were exposed to online threats so far this year, while another 15.81 percent faced threats on devices, including malware infections and spyware that infiltrated through private systems or apps.

On the corporate side, 12.8 percent of B2B companies in the financial sector were recorded to have experienced ransomware attacks, as data hostage-taking increased as the most popular extortion method.

Kaspersky also recorded a 35.7 percent spike in the number of unique users in the financial sector who were targeted for ransomware compared to 2023, showing significant escalation on the scale and intensity of attacks.

At the same time, threats aimed at stealing financial credentials continued to increase, with 1,338,357 banking trojan attacks detected throughout 2025.

Kaspersky experts suggest the following things remain safe: