Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Symantec Intelligence Report: May 2014

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

Report highlights:
- A large data breach occurred in May, resulting in the potential exposure of over 145 million identities. Over 577 million identities have been exposed in the last 12 months.
- Ransomware continues to decline as the year progresses, down to 17 percent of the peak levels seen back in November 2013.
- Spam, phishing, and virus rates are up in May, after having each dropped in April.


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

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