Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Symantec Intelligence Report: October 2014

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

Report highlights:
- Of the industries attacked through spear phishing, the category of Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate received 28 percent of all attempts in the month of October.
- The largest data breach in October had previously been reported; however, we learned this month that the breach resulted in the exposure of identities within 76 million households.
- OSX.Okaz was the most frequently encountered OSX risk seen on OSX endpoints, making up 28.8 percent of OSX risks.
- Crypto-style ransomware made up 55 percent of all ransomware seen in the month of October.


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

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