Last year, this type of program (known as the ransomware ), more lucrative than a scam on social network increased by 113%. And variant called “CryptoLocker” , which holds hostage personal data, was 45 times more victims than in 2013, according to the report released Tuesday. Suffice to say that the cyberkidnapping is well.
“Overall, cybercrime has further increased in 2014 with 317 million new malicious programs created in the world, nearly 1 million per day “ said Laurent Heslault, cyber security expert at Symantec and Norton.
59 days to deploy patches
On the vulnerabilities Zero-Day , that is to say that use of undetected faults previously in software, 2014 was a year record with 24 discoveries, which resulted in a significantly increased response time and therefore offered more time hackers to use it.
“It took on average 59 days for software vendors to create and deploy patches when they needed only four in 2013″ , falls indeed the expert in computer security.
The report by Symantec also advanced a tactical change from the cyber attackers who infiltrate in large enterprise networks and escape all detection by diverting their infrastructure for use against them.
“No need to force the door if the key is”
“They do not need to force the door of a company’s network if the key is already at hand “, said Laurent Heslault.
” Many are able to to self-infect via Trojans in standard software updates, and then wait patiently for their target download these infected updates, and giving them free access to the corporate network “, details there.
France increased again this year from one place, so going 14th in the world and 6th largest European countries where cybercrime is the most active, the United States, China and India in that order preserving the lead.
70% of scammers has been shared manually
The Hexagon is distinguished by network attacks, the phishing , or phishing, digital extortion and scams on social networks.
“In 2014, 70% of such scams in the world have been manually shared in that the attackers took advantage of the trust that people place the content shared by their friends “, notes in this regard Laurent Heslault.
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