Report: Upsurge in Sophisticated Cyber Attacks
Report: Upsurge in Sophisticated Cyber Attacks
Posted 07/21/2010 at 5:03am
| by Paul Lilly
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According to the Security Labs Report released by M86 Security Labs, advanced cyber attacks are both on the rise and becoming ever more sophisticated in nature.
There are a number of new attack methods cropping up that are all designed to better infiltrate organizations, including one called a "combined attack." A combined attack works by splitting the code between the JavaScript and Adobe ActionScript languages, which makes it far more difficult to detect.
"We're seeing that as one way the attackers are specifically trying to get around some of the security technologies in the marketplace," said Bradley Anstis, vice president of technology strategy at M86.
Also in the report was a list of the top 10 countries hosting malicious code, with the U.S. topping the list at 43.3 percent. In a distant second was China with 14.1 percent, followed by Russia and Germany with 4.1 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively.
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Lhot
July 21, 2010 at 5:40am
....the last paragraphs statistics are so out of whack it isn't funny....the day the U.S. beats China and Russia in cyber attacks, is the day I call foul and question M86's (whoever they are) results.
The "CLOUD" is the biggest mistake this country has made...EVER !
whr4usa
July 21, 2010 at 11:01am
no man read it more carefully & think it through
...number of websites hosting malicious code listed by country where domain is registered or/and hosted
considering well over half of the world's websites are hosted within the usa & many more domain names hosted or mirored elsewhere were originally registered in the Internet's birthplac or are still owned/maintained/managed from stateside companies I'd be crying foul if we wern't in first or second place!
remember hosting malicious code just means being part of a botnet or being compromised by local malicious code such as a virus or trojan
it doesn't mean the system is the ultimate origin of said item of malware, just currently hosting\propogating\executing it
as populated & connected as the PRC has become they've nowhere near the internet access nor web volume as north america or europe & probably not even taiwan so while we're listed as hosting 40%+ of the world's detected malware that's most likely a relatively lower percentage of our total connected systems whereas the prc's ~15% is probably a huge proportion of their total web volume
the Information age is all about ratios my friend!! binary law, too!
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