Monday, December 10, 2012

Kaspersky Year 2012 Threat Analysis Report

Kaspersky Lab have published their annual threat analysis report covering the biggest issues faced by corporate and individual users alike as a result of malware, potentially harmful programs, crimeware, spam, phishing and other different types of hacker activity.

Kaspersky's Top 10 security incidents in 2012 is following:
1. Flashback hits Mac OS X
2. Flame and Gauss: nation-state cyber-espionage campaigns
3. The explosion of Android threats
4. The LinkedIn, Last.fm, Dropbox and Gamigo password leaks
5. The Adobe certificates theft and the omnipresent APT
6. The DNSChanger shutdown
7. The Ma(h)di incident
8. The Java 0-days
9. Shamoon
10. The DSL modems, Huawei banning and hardware hacks

About these and Kaspersky security forecast for 2013 can be read in the report here.

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