FireEye has released its 2H 2012 Advanced Threat Report which provides an overview of the current threat landscape evolving advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics, and the level of infiltration seen in organizations' networks.
The threat report also provides a global look into cyber-attacks that routinely bypass traditional defences such as firewalls, next-generation firewalls, IPS, antivirus and security gateways. The other key findings of the report show that some industries are attacked cyclically, while some experience attacks erratically; attackers opt for file names with common business terms to attract unsuspecting users into opening the malware and initiating the attack; malicious malware is delivered in the ZIP file format in 92 per cent of attacks and by avoiding the more common .exe file type, attackers leverage DLL files to prolong infections.
Ashar Aziz, Founder & CTO, FireEye, said, "This report provides an overview of how attacks have become much more advanced and successful at penetrating networks, regardless of industry. As cybercriminals invest more in advanced malware and innovations to better evade detection, enterprises must rethink their security infrastructure and reinforce their traditional defences with a new layer of security that is able to detect these dynamic, unknown threats in real-time."
The report also demonstrates that malware activity has become so common that organizations experience a malicious email file attachment or Web link as well as malware communication that evades legacy defences up to once every three minutes.
