Cyber criminals making targeted, sustained attacks

2 out of 10spam mails come from India......

Cyber criminals have increased targeted attacks in the first quarter of 2012. Advanced persistent threats (APTs), a long-term, on-going campaign versus the typical smash-and-grab incidents, too are on the rise.

Attackers have piggybacked on visible events such as Whitney Houston's death, and socio-political upheavals around the world to penetrate and infect users and networks and gain access to victims' data. The payload is a malware that is silently executed on the target's computer. This exploitation allows attackers to take control of and obtain data from the compromised computer.............

New social networking site, Pinterest that helps people ‘pin' content, is one of the victims. Site users were drawn into re-pinning a Starbucks logo to get supposed gift cards but instead got malware........

India has emerged the top source for spam in the first quarter with a share of 20 per cent of all spam generated globally. This was followed by Indonesia (13 per cent), South Korea (12 per cent), and Russia (10 per cent).

The report found that there were 5,000 new malicious Android apps during the period. With the increased use of smartphones for Internet access and the huge Android user base, the increase in attacks targeting the platform is thus not surprising....................

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