Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Symantec Intelligence Report: August 2014

Symantec have published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for August 2014.

Report highlights:
- While there has been a general decline in ransomware threats since March 2014, the overall volume of crypto-style ransomware has increased over 700 percent since January.
- The largest data breach reported in August resulted in the exposure of 27 million identities. For the month, 31 million identities were exposed.
- The average number of spear-phishing attacks dropped to 20 per day in August, the lowest seen in the last twelve months.


The report (in PDF format) can be viewed here.

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