World Cyber threats continue to soar

Berderdasarkan known threat of cyber crime results of monitoring activities in the Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) XV made by Symantec Thursday (29 / 4) and presented at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Jakarta.

Monitoring conducted by security engineers, analysts, threats, and investigators from the teams located all over the world who are members of the Symantec Internet Security Technology and Response highlights the main trends of cyber crime period of January 1, 2009 until December 31, 2009 by utilizing the sensor 240 000 spread across approximately 200 countries.

If the initial goal is the pride of cyber criminals, cyber attacks are now attention has shifted to the 'underground economy'. The attackers are now targeting financial firms to do the theft of data, so they can be traded in the blackmarket.

"This is evident from the increasing cases of data theft in the financial sector, which rose to 60% from 29% in the year 2008", explained Raymond Goh, as Director of Systems Engineer Symantec APAC. "For the credit card information theft attacks, up from 19% to 32% in the year 2009", he added.

Increasing amount of malware code with the toolkit is easy to get through the undergound economy. Package price is cheap malware code, make it easier for attackers to perform data theft beginners. One of them, Zeus toolkit / Zbot that can be obtained at a price of U.S. $ 700. Signature is seen from the growth in the year 2008 which amounted to one million, the year 2009 increased to 2.9 million signatures.

Web-based attacks also continue to grow without interruption. By leveraging social engineering techniques, the attackers lure unwary users to access websites that berbahaya.Jumlah web-based attacks that target the PDF reader in the year 2009 experienced a dramatic growth reaching 49% of all web-based attacks were observed. This figure represents a huge increase from only 11% in 2008.

ISTR report also highlights the malicious activity that will continue to rise in developing countries experiencing increases in broadband infrastructure such as Brazil, India, Poland, Vietnam and Russia. Because not so hard to eradicate the criminals cyber, cyber criminals create vigorous attack.