dbarrow
03-27-2006, 11:14 AM
http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/Chinese_malware_coming_to_a_computer_near_you.asp
... The nature of online threats is changing with attacks get more sophisticated and evidence mounting that the focus has shifted away from the network perimeter and on to attempted cybercrime attacks of bot-infected computers.
According to the latest edition of Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report, malicious hackers are increasingly using bot-networks, modular malicious code and targeted attacks on Web applications and Web browsers to carry out cyber raids.
"We have found that 88% of attacks use modular malicious code that will drop in a Trojan to open a system up to another type of malware," Symantec spokesman Richard Archdeacon said.
While past attacks were designed to destroy data, today's attacks are increasingly designed to silently steal data for profit without doing noticeable damage that would alert a user to its presence. In the previous Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec cautioned that malicious code for profit was on the rise, and this trend continued during the second half of 2005. Malicious code threats that could reveal confidential information rose from 74% of the top 50 malicious code samples last period to 80% this period....
... The nature of online threats is changing with attacks get more sophisticated and evidence mounting that the focus has shifted away from the network perimeter and on to attempted cybercrime attacks of bot-infected computers.
According to the latest edition of Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report, malicious hackers are increasingly using bot-networks, modular malicious code and targeted attacks on Web applications and Web browsers to carry out cyber raids.
"We have found that 88% of attacks use modular malicious code that will drop in a Trojan to open a system up to another type of malware," Symantec spokesman Richard Archdeacon said.
While past attacks were designed to destroy data, today's attacks are increasingly designed to silently steal data for profit without doing noticeable damage that would alert a user to its presence. In the previous Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec cautioned that malicious code for profit was on the rise, and this trend continued during the second half of 2005. Malicious code threats that could reveal confidential information rose from 74% of the top 50 malicious code samples last period to 80% this period....