UK's a very popular target for EMEA cyberspies – report

  • 17 October 2014
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By John Leyden, 17 Oct 2014
 
Malware attacks, especially in Europe, nearly doubled in the first half of 2014, according to a new report.
Government, financial services, telecommunications and energy were the most targeted sectors – collectively making up more than half of attacks detected by security vendor FireEye.
 
The UK (17 per cent) followed by Germany with (12 per cent) were the two European countries most commonly targeted by malware-flinging, spear-phishing cyberspies.
Targets in Saudi Arabia (10 per cent), Turkey (9 per cent) and Switzerland (8 per cent) made up the remainder of the top five.
 
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