14 DAY TRIAL // The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published a 2013 mid-year report that analyzes the threat landscape.
According to the study, the top threats that have had a major impact since 2012 are drive-by exploits, code injections, botnets, denial-of-service (DOS) attacks, scareware, targeted attacks, search engine poisoning and identity theft.
After analyzing 50 reports from the first part of 2013, experts have found that cybercriminals are increasingly relying on advanced methods to carry out their attacks, and make them more difficult to analyze and disrupt.
The paper also focuses on attacks that combine various threats, the availability of cybercriminal tools and other resources, and the increasing abuse of mobile devices by malicious entities.
The agency also highlights the fact that cyberattacks are the sixth most important cause of telecoms infrastructure outages.
The full ENISA Threat Landscape report is available on the agency’s website.