14 DAY TRIAL // Security solutions provider Solutionary has released its Global Threat Intelligence Report for 2012. The study, based on threat intelligence gathered via the Solutionary ActiveGuard platform, provides insight on last year’s threats.
While China and other countries have been appointed as being behind a large number of cyberattacks against US organizations, the study has found that, in reality, 83 % of all attacks actually originate from US IP address space.
In addition, the study has found that distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks cost a lot of money. For instance, organizations spend as much as $6,500 (5,000 EUR) per hour to recover from such attacks, and the sum doesn’t include the revenue they have possibly lost because of the downtime.
The costs of malware attacks are also significant. Companies spend up to 30 days to mitigate the attacks and recover from them, an activity which costs them over $3,000 (2,300 EUR) per day.
When it comes to malware attacks, Solutionary says the financial and retail sectors are most targeted.
Since Java has made a lot of headlines in 2012, it couldn’t be missing from the report. Java is named the most targeted software in exploit kits, with almost 40% of exploits targeting it.
Finally, Solutionary highlights the fact that antivirus software and end-point security applications continue to be ineffective against malware. The study shows that over half of the malware samples analyzed by the company are capable of bypassing popular solutions.
“Cyber criminals are targeting organizations with advanced threats and attacks designed to siphon off valuable corporate IP and regulated information, deny online services to millions of users and damage brand reputation,” said Don Gray, chief security strategist, Solutionary.
“The Solutionary GTIR provides actionable intelligence and strategic recommendations that will allow readers to make smart decisions, strengthen their organizations' cyber defenses and maximize the value of their security programs.”
“This report provides a wide range of threat information, with analysis, intelligence and defense guidance focused on high-priority security issues, including malware, advanced threats, BYOD, Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS), exploit kits and cloud security,” said Rob Kraus, director of research, SERT.
“The findings are based on a year's worth of research conducted by our team of security experts, who are on the front lines of modern-day cyber-threat battles.”
The complete report is available here.