As per the latest survey by Kaspersky Lab, it has been detected that the overall global Internet threat level grew by 6.9 percentage points – in 2013, 41.6% of user computers were attacked at least once. In order to conduct all these attacks over the Internet in 2013, cybercriminals used 10,604,273 unique hosts, which is 60.5% more than in 2012. The USA and Russia are the leading hosts of malicious web resources – 45% of web attacks neutralized by Kaspersky Lab products were launched from these countries.
2013 also saw a further increase in the security issues around mobiles, with a new level of maturity in terms of the sophistication and number of these threats. Most malicious mobile apps principally aimed to steal money, and subsequently personal data. Android is still the main target, attracting a whopping 98.05% of known malware.
“There is unlikely to be any slowdown in development of malicious apps, especially for Android. To date, the majority of malware have been designed to get access to the device. In the future, there is also a high probability that the first mass worm for Android will appear. Android ticks all the boxes for cybercriminals – it is a widely-used OS that is easy to use for both app developers and malware authors alike,” commented Christian Funk, Senior Virus Analyst, Kaspersky Lab.
From the survey findings, Kaspersky Lab detected 315,000 new malicious files every day. Last year’s number was 200,000. Kaspersky Lab’s products repelled an average of 4,659,920 attacks on users every day when they were online.
Kaspersky Lab products detected almost 3 billion malware attacks on user computers. A total of 1.8 million malicious and potentially unwanted programs were detected in these attacks.
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