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Cybercriminal Attacks Becoming More Targeted
Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer
2010-02-24
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Online criminals are having greater success with increased technical sophistication affecting a wider range of industries, according to a new report by Cyveillance.
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"Cyber criminals are focusing their efforts on developing more sophisticated and targeted attacks rather than using a far reaching blanket approach, in order to reap greater financial rewards," said Panos Anastassiadis, chief operating officer of Cyveillance.
"From emails to social networks, online criminals have increasingly more information at their disposal and a growing array of attack vectors to appear credible and go undetected. Organizations must be more vigilant in proactively protecting themselves and cannot rely solely on traditional security measures to keep their infrastructure and sensitive information safe."
While banks and credit unions continue to be the top targets of phishers, governments and the technology and energy industries are now seeing growing number of attacks. During the second half of 2009, 399 brands were first-time targets of phishing attacks, nearly double the amount of first-time targets than in the first half of this year. Averaging over 36,000 confirmed, unique attacks per month in the same period of 2009, phishing attacks continue to succeed despite added security measures and consumer education.
The United States hosted 35 percent of all phishing attacks for the second half of 2009, over 4 times as much as the closest country, Netherlands, hosting 8 percent of all attacks.
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