“rançongiciels” These malicious software that take control of PCs, tablets and smartphones and then demand money for their users, more than doubled worldwide in 2014, according to the annual report of the American society Symantec computer security.
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 is holding personal data, is 45 times more victims than in 2013, according to the report released Tuesday.
Other experts also noted that Hackers also attack supporters of video games, and take “hostage” the characters and the files related to the session of the game, they do not “free” as against the payment of a ransom. Thus the site Atlantico he observed that the firm Emsisoft specializing in cyber security, discovered TeslaCrypt a hacking program involving nearly forty popular video games like EA Sports, Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty.
Video Game Characters “taken hostage”
When asked by the site, Frédéric Mouffle, Director of investigations and computer security division at Ker-Meur says that these attacks are characterized by the ” sending attachments trapped by a website set up for the occasion This site attracts victims by offering standard messages. “finds all your game statistics on this page and compare yourself to other players around the world … “, or” You are selected to win a PC worth 2,500 euros “
Determined not to let lose the data from hundreds of hours of gameplay. the players are willing to pay with Paypal or -via bitcoins- to recover and “liberate” their character. ( after the illustration Suite )
Legend: screenshot showing an example of a message that appears if fraudulent freezing the computer by hackers.
“Overall, cybercrime has further increased in 2014 with 317 million new malicious programs created in the world, nearly 1 million per day,” explained AFP Laurent Heslault, cyber security expert at Symantec and Norton.
In terms of zero-day vulnerabilities, that is to say that use of undetected faults previously in software, 2014 will in particular was a record year with 24 discoveries, which resulted in a significantly increased response time and therefore offered more time for hackers to use it.
“It took an average of 59 days for software vendors to create and deploy patches when they needed only four in 2013, “notes indeed the expert in computer security.
Changing tactics of cyber-attackers
The report by Symantec also advanced a tactical change from the cyber-attackers infiltrate the networks of large enterprises and escape detection by diverting their infrastructure to use against them.
“They did not need to force the door of the network of a company if the key is already at hand,” said Laurent Heslault.
“Many are able to do self-infect via Trojans during updates of standard software and then wait patiently for their targets downloading these updates infected, giving them free access to the corporate network, “Does details -it.
France increased again this year from a place and going to the 14th in the world and the 6th largest European countries where cyber crime is most active, the United States, China and India in that order keeping the lead.
The Hexagon is characterized by network attacks, phishing, phishing, digital extortion and scams on social networks.
“In 2014, 70% of the scams that 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,” note Laurent Heslault this respect.
(With AFP)
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