new research published in the NTT global Threat Intelligence Report 2016 reveals that cyber criminals have shifted their focus on traditional financial markets targeting the retail sector. The report contains security threats gathered during 2015 8,000 customers security companies NTT Group including Dimension Data, Solutionary, NTT Com Security, NTT R & D, and NTT Innovation Institute (NTTi3).
"Retail companies are becoming increasingly popular targets as most important process volumes of personal information, including credit card data in highly distributed environments with many terminals and point of service terminals, "said Rory Duncan, Business Unit safety manager at Dimension Data UK. " These diverse environments can be difficult to protect. "
65% of attacks came from within the US IP addresses. However, hackers behind these attacks could be located anywhere in the world. cybercriminals adopt low-cost, highly available and geographically strategic infrastructure to carry out activities malicious.
"the sectors of retail and financial process large volumes of personal information and credit card data," said Matthew Gyde, Executive Group of dimension Data - security . "Access to these organizations allows cybercriminals to monetize sensitive data such as credit card details on the black market, which confirms that cybercriminals are motivated by the rewards of financial crime."
Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging malware to breach the perimeter defenses of organizations. In 2015, there was a 18% increase in malware in all sectors, excluding the education sector
The frequency and complexity of malware becomes more stealthy and sophisticated. As organizations grow sandboxes (software that performs the suspect code in a highly protected environment and review its activities) to better understand the cybercriminal tactics to protect against attacks at the same time , malicious software developers are aggressively developing anti-sandbox techniques.
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