"2013 Internet Security Threat Report" showing the current state of Internet security where cyber attacks are increasing while number of spam decreases is released

ByNeoneddy

SymantecPublished the Internet security report from 2012 to 2013. According to the report, the number of net attacks against corporations increased, but the leakage of personal information and the number of spam mails decreased. On the other hand, phishing scams on Twitter and SNS seems to be increasing.

Security Response Publications, Internet Security Threat Report | Symantec
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/publications/threatreport.jsp


First of all, targeted attacks for corporations in 2012 increased by 42% compared to 2011. Among them, the manufacturing industry was the most easily targeted, followed by the insurance, real estate, finance, and service industries, followed by the transportation, communications, power and gas industries with the least damage. In addition, 31% of the total damage is small and medium-sized enterprises with 250 or fewer employees.


There are 5291 new vulnerabilities reported in 2012. Since it was 4989 pieces in 2011, about 300 cases increased.


93 million private information leaked annually, but this is a 60% decrease compared to 2011. The average number of individual information leaks in each industry also decreased by 1.1 million less than in 2011 to 60, 4826 cases.


An average of 30 billion spam e-mails are sent a day, which is 69% of the total e-mail. Since it was 89% in 2010 and 75% in 2011, it seems to be decreasing trend.


Also, spam on dating and sexual matters has increased to 55% of the total.


23% of the total number of e-mails containing URLs containing malware. It has decreased by about 16% from 2011.


One out of 291 mails sent contains viruses. Also, when looking at corporations alone, we receive the most e-mails containing viruses from companies with 1500 to 2500 employees, the number of which is one in 42. On the contrary, the smallest company is a company with a scale of 251 to 500 people, the public sector seems to have the most virus mails by industry.


One phishing scam in 414 messages. Last year it was 1 in 299, so it can be said that it is considerably decreasing, but on the contrary the damage of people using SNS like Twitter, Facebook, etc. has increased by 1 since 2011, so it is necessary to be careful .


Infected with malware, the number of PCs that can be remote-controlled by botnet is 3.4 million.


NewlyZero Day AttackThere were 14 vulnerabilities targeted.


The number of defenses against attacks on the Internet during the day was 243,350, an increase of 600,000 compared to 2011. Despite the increase in vulnerability, it seems there is a reason for the fact that the number of damages is decreasing because the quality of defense is increasing.


There are about 74,000 malicious domains on the net. Macs were thought to be hard to suffer from malware damage, but considerable damage occurred in 2012. A Trojan horse aimed at Mac OS X in AprilFlashbackIt is estimated that the damage of the infection will spread and over 600,000 infected PCs will surpass.


On the other hand, the vulnerability of mobile terminals is increasing every year.


Compared with 2011, the number of malware on mobile terminals also increased by 58%.


The full text of the report can be seen from the following.

Internet security THREAT REPORT 2013
(PDF file)http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/other_resources/b-istr_main_report_v18_2012_21291018.en-us.pdf