Kaspersky review of 2016: servers for sale, botnets, IoT

Kaspersky: 2016, the biggest digital threats worldwide, concerned finances, information, and the desire to disrupt and violate data. These included the illegal trade in tens of thousands of login elements from broken serverss, interception of ATM systems, programs , προγράμματα κακόβουλου λογισμικού για συστήματα banking, as well as cyber espionage attacks, but also the breach and leakage of sensitive personal data. Kaspersky Security Bulletin Review

These negative trends, their effects and the data they contain are covered by the annual one Report Kaspersky Security Review And the Statistical References her.

2016's Kaspersky Lab research also reveals the extent to which businesses are struggling to locate a security incident quickly and effectively: 28,7% of businesses reported that it took them several days to spot such an event, while 19% admitted it took weeks, if not more time. For a small but significant minority of 7,1%, tracking lasted months. Among those who "fought" more often, the problem is often detected by internal or external security checks, or by third party alerts, such as by a customer or a consumer. More information on how late the detection of threats affects the recovery costs of the business, you can find in SUMMARY OF MAIN POINTS of the report.

Other things we learned about 2016:

  1. The shadow economy is bigger and more sophisticated than ever: just look at it xDedic – τη σκιώδη αγορά για πάνω από 70.000 σύνδεσης από παραβιασμένους server, που επέτρεπαν σε οποιονδήποτε να αγοράσει την πρόσβαση σε έναν παραβιασμένο server, όπως για παράδειγμα, σε κάποιον που βρίσκεται στο κυβερνητικό δίκτυο μιας χώρας στην ΕΕ, για μόλις $6
  2. The largest financial robbery did not include stock trading, as expected: instead, SWIFT transactions were used to steal 100 million dollars.
  3. Critical infrastructures are alarmingly vulnerable in many places, as revealed at the end of 2015 and its principles 2016 through the digital assault BlackEnergy in the Ukrainian energy sector, which involved disabling the electricity grid, deleting data and launching a DDoS attack. 2016, Kaspersky Lab's specialists have explored the potential for industrial control threats and have discovered thousands of Internet-wide providers across the globe, with 91,1% have vulnerabilities which one can manage remotely.
  4. A targeted attack may not follow any pattern: as it was shown by ProjectSauron APT, an advanced, modular digital espionage team that adapted its tools according to each goal, reducing their value as Indices of Compromise (IOCs) for any other victim.
  5. The electronic release of huge volumes of data can directly affect what people think and believe: as evidenced by ShadowBrokers and personal and political data leaks.
  6. A webcam or a DVD player could be part of a world-wide digital army of Internet-of-things: as the year ends, it is clear that the attacks related to Mirai botnet is just the beginning.

«Ο αριθμός και το εύρος των ψηφιακών επιθέσεων και των θυμάτων τους που συναντήσαμε το 2016, εγείρουν το θέμα της καλύτερης ανίχνευσης στην κορυφή της ατζέντας των επιχειρήσεων. Η ανίχνευση είναι τώρα μια πολύπλοκη διαδικασία που απαιτεί τεχνογνωσία στον τομέα της ασφάλειας, βαθιά γνώση του τοπίου των απειλών, αλλά και την ανάπτυξη δεξιοτήτων για να εφαρμοστεί η τεχνογνωσία αυτή σε κάθε οργανισμό. Η ανάλυσή μας επάνω στις ψηφιακές απειλές όλα αυτά τα χρόνια έχει φέρει στην επιφάνεια τόσο συγκεκριμένα μοτίβο όσο και μοναδικές προσεγγίσεις. Αυτή η συσσωρευμένη κατανόηση στηρίζει ενεργά τα εργαλεία άμυνάς μας, καθώς πιστεύουμε ότι οι τεχνολογίες ς θα πρέπει να τροφοδοτούνται από την τεχνογνωσία στον τομέα της ασφάλειας. Επίσης, έγκειται στο επίκεντρο του αυξανόμενου αριθμού εταιρικών μας σχέσεων και συνεργασιών. Χρησιμοποιούμε το παρελθόν για να προετοιμαστούμε για το μέλλον, έτσι ώστε να μπορούμε να συνεχίσουμε να προστατεύσουμε τους πελάτες μας από προηγουμένως άγνωστες απειλές, πριν προλάβουν να προκαλέσουν οποιαδήποτε » said David Emm, Principal Security Researcher Kaspersky Lab.

In a special video on Youtube you can see the overview of information security protection.

Στα αξιοσημείωτα στατιστικά για το έτος 2016 περιλαμβάνονται:

  • 36% of online banking attacks are now targeting Android devices, compared to just 8% 2015
  • 262 million URLs were identified as malicious by Kaspersky Lab products, and there were 758 million malicious cyber-attacks worldwide - with one in three (29%) coming from the US and 17% from the Netherlands
  • There were eight new "families" of malware for Point-of-Sale and ATM - an increase of 20% compared to 2015
  • Attackers used the Google Play Store to distribute malware for Android devices, with "infected" to have "descended" hundreds of thousands of times

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