Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Malware Growing Faster Than Ever |
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Malware is growing at a higher level than ever before reports F-Secure.
According to the security company’s data security summary, the first half of 2008 witnessed a growing number of targeted malware attacks on individuals, companies, and organizations.
In a targeted malware attack, the attacker profiles his victim and sends an e-mail using the recipient's name, title, and perhaps references to his job function. The message's content is typically something that the recipient would expect to receive via e-mail.
According to F-Secure, this recent explosion of malware doesn't necessarily represent new types of threats but is largely the packing, encryption, and obfuscation of existing families of trojans, backdoors, exploits, and other threats which is now done with industrial efficiency. What the increasing use of self-defense technologies in malware represents is the ever growing professionalism within the crime-ware community.
"I have a nasty feeling that the situation is getting worse, not better", says Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure Corporation.
F-Secure also noted that the first half of 2008 brought some new ways to infect PC's, as well as "jailbreaking" for mobile phones. |
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