Including 9 million inpostealers in 2024 alone, a total of 26 million, as Kaspersky said, "was at risk" by these harmful programs. While only 1 % of the internationally released bank cards on the dark network network were leaked, 95 % of the cards that were monitored were "technically valid" according to the report. But there is more for this type of harmful program that exceeds the theft of bank card account numbers.

The Kaspersky report continues to mention that these harmful programs also steal the credentials that are the information used to verify the user's identity. This includes passwords. This data, along with cookies, is distributed to the dark web community. Victims can face a problem without realizing that they are about to injure their phones, disk or computer. Infostealer is often hidden as a legitimate program. The Kaspersky report is used as an example. The victim usually downloads the program and runs a harmful file.

The number of devices infected with harmful programs infostealer. | Kaspersky credit image intelligence intelligence

Then harmful programs spread to other devices through hunting links, malicious email attachments, infected web sites, and other ways. Last year, Redline was the most prevalent in Infostealer because it represented 34 % of injuries. The fastest growth between Infostealers was Risepro, whose share of 14 % infection increased in 2023 to 23 % last year. Quickly growing Infostealer is Stealc that first appeared in 2023 with 3 % stake infections. This number grew to 13 % in 2024.

Kaspersky says that if you find yourself a victim of Jellair, monitor your bank accounts and notifications, "Kaspersky says. Request your bank card version and change passwords for your banking and website. Enably enable a bipolar license and set spending limits if the bank you deal with allow you to do so. Be looking for fake attachments, fake texts and false phone calls. If you are not sure whether the notification, email or text is legitimate, call your bank. Kaspersky also suggests the operation of security surveying operations on your devices while ensuring that any discovered harmful programs are removed.