McAfee: Phishing technique is an effective way to penetrate the corporate network
McAfee Labs released a report on the threats in August 2014, revealing that the technique of phishing is an effective way to penetrate corporate networks. Test your skills to identify online fraud among corporate users, which was organized by the McAfee test to determine phishing, revealed that 80% of participants testing is not able to determine at least one of the seven phishing e-mail messages. Moreover, it appears that the financial and personnel departments of companies that store critical corporate information, coped with the worst test, lagging behind other corporate users an average of 4% to 9%. Since the publication of the report on the threats of the previous quarter, the number certain laboratory McAfee Labs phishing URL-links increased by 250,000, bringing the total amount collected in the past 12 months, new phishing addresses to one million addresses. Increased not only the total amount, but also the level of complexity of phishing attacks.
The results showed that in the world of cyber criminals common strategy both attacks: both mass and targeted attacks. At the same time, the United States remains the leader in the number of phishing URLs in the world. "One of the most important tasks for us is to update the core technology of the Internet with a view to comply with the increased volume of traffic and the critical importance of network traffic, - says Pavel Eiges, regional director of Intel Security in Russia and the CIS. - In recent years, attacks were subjected to different levels of security systems: from passwords and public key encryption OpenSSL to USB. infrastructure on which we all depend, based on technologies that are not keeping pace with the times and no longer meet modern safety requirements.
" The study also warns of the possibility of new cybercrime, as even after the disclosure of the vulnerability Heatbleed data exposed her sites continue to be on the black market. List of vulnerable sites and utilities to collect information quickly became popular with kiberpreustpnikov. With the help of these programs became possible to create an automated system to collect valuable information to vulnerable endpoints and systems. The report says that the number of new types of malware in the second quarter grew by only 1%.
With that, the number was 31 million new samples, this is a record number of new malicious programs per quarter. The total number of malware for mobile platforms has increased by 17% in the second quarter, with the growth in the number of new viruses stabilized at 700,000 in the quarter. number of attacks such as "denial of service" (DoS) increased by 4% in the second quarter, makes such an attack the dominant type of network threats, the report said.
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