New Trojan preys on commercial banking customers A researcher has uncovered malware that targets commercial bank customers by logging into their online accounts and wiring large sums to accounts under the control of criminals. The Prg Bank Trojan is known to have cost victims at least $200,000, but the actual damage is suspected to be much higher, said Don Jackson, a …
Just goes to show how meaningless most statistics printed or reported are. Stating "10% of the operation" means absolutely nothing. How do you define "the operation", is it value of fraud, number of fraudulent transactions, number of people caught carrying out fraudulent transactions, etc., etc.
You'll find that many media sources (not just El Reg), quote meaningless statistics all the time, stats that *sound* as though they make sense, but when you actually stop to think about it mean less than nothing, and are just pretty window dressing to make the article seem as though there is actually some scientific analysis in there.
In fact I'd go so far as to say that 99% of articles quoting statistics are just plain nonsense.
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