RSA: More Phishing, Ransomware, Polymorphism Define Modern Threat Landscape

  • 13 February 2017
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13th February 2017 By Tara Seals
 
For every new phishing URL impersonating a financial institution, there were more than seven impersonating technology companies.
 
The data was collected throughout 2016 by Webroot, and demonstrates a significant change since 2015, when the ratio was less than one to three. This increase may indicate that it is easier to phish a technology account, and that due to password reuse, they can be more valuable to hackers as a gateway to other accounts.
 
According to Webroot’s 2017 Threat Report, released at RSA, the top three phishing targets in 2016 were Google, Yahoo and Apple.
 
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Thanks Jasper - some interesting stats from Webroot in that article including:
 
"In fact, approximately 94% of malware and potentially unwanted application (PUA) executables were only seen once" and
 
"On the mobile front, nearly 50% of the new and updated mobile apps analyzed in 2016 were classified by Webroot as malicious or suspicious, totaling nearly 10 million during the year. In contrast, just over 2 million such apps were identified during 2015".
 
Amazing stuff. Fighting malware must be like climbing a mountain that keeps growing exponentially higher!!

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