The monthly market Her report Symantec provides the latest analyzes of cyber-security threats, trends in malware, spam, and other potential business risks from the company's team.
The company identified a major data breach that was developed in May and exposed more than 145 million identities, according to the Intelligence Report, released in June, assessing the global threat landscape in May. By May, the year was relatively quiet in terms of the number and size of data breaches. This is the continuation of the relatively quiet three months - compared to the data breach event - at the end of 2013, where data breaches resulted in the exposure of more than 100 million identities each month, leading Symantec to make 2013 as a mega-year. breach.
In May, the global threat landscape saw the return of another major data breach, as well as a large number of targets attacks. However, the rate of targeted attacks decreased from an average of 165 attacks per day in January to 54 attacks per day in the month of May. Ransomware is another area of the threat landscape where Symantec reported a slight decrease in threats. Ransomware activity peaked in November 2013, when Symantec blocked 861.000 potential Ransomware infections. Numbers remained relatively high during the early months of 2014, but declined in both April and May, currently at only 17% of the peak activity seen in November 2013.
In addition, 4 zero-day vulnerabilities appeared in May, according to the report. There were 66 variations Android malware per family and phishing spam, while email virus rates were all up in May after falling in April.
For more information, see the full report Symantec Intelligence for the month of May at the link http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/other_resources/b-intelligence_report_05-2014.en-us.pdf.
