{"id":3394,"date":"2014-12-08T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kasperskydaily.com\/b2b\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2020-02-27T03:51:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:51:50","slug":"2014-statistics-business-and-financial-cyberthreats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/2014-statistics-business-and-financial-cyberthreats\/3394\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 statistics: business and financial cyberthreats"},"content":{"rendered":"

As this tumultuous year is wrapping up, Kaspersky Lab lists the year\u2019s cyberthreats<\/a>. The numbers are appalling: 6.2 billon malicious attacks on computers and mobile devices were blocked by Kaspersky Lab antivirus products in 2014, which is 1 billion more than in 2013. This number is not surprising given the context and statistics from previous years. It doesn\u2019t spell out doom and gloom, but it does point to something interesting about awareness.<\/p>\n

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The entire year was dominated by the \u201cultimate demise\u201d of Windows XP (which is actually pen-ultimate at best<\/a>), two major bugs<\/a> codenamed Heartbleed and Shellshock, and a recently revealed critical flaw in Internet Explorer that was apparently there since Windows 95<\/a>. The nearly two decades old bug received its own codename \u2013 WinShock. (If you haven\u2019t noticed by now, naming the bugs became a trend.) All of these bugs affected businesses in different ways. Heartbleed and Shellshock led to a widespread panic globally, prompting IT staffs around the world to apply a series of patches immediately.<\/p>\n

2014 statistics: business and financial #cyberthreats<\/p>Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n

Also, this year was marked with loads of APT campaign disclosures, targeting all kinds of businesses, industries, and government organizations \u2013 Epic Turla<\/a>, Energetic Bear\/Crouching Yeti<\/a>, Sandworm\/BlackEnergy<\/a>, Darkhotel<\/a>, and Regin to name just a few. This kind of threat has gone \u201cindustrial\u201d, and there are many reasons to assume APT tactics will become commonplace among cybercriminals soon. Yet to be affected business IT staff should pay attention to this kind of threat, as it\u2019s likely they may encounter it in a matter of months.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s look at other parts of the data:<\/p>\n

Attempts to steal money via online access to bank accounts were blocked on almost 2,000,000 computers. <\/strong>Some attempts to access individuals\u2019 computers are really attempts targeting the user\u2019s company.<\/p>\n