New data released by ScanSafe indicates that Web attacks have soared, up one-third during the second quarter, and, most worryingly, some 90% of all threats are now zero-day attacks.
14% of all problems came from sites compromised by the infamous Gumblar botnet, and there was a massive 37% rise in identity theft Trojans, most being variants on Backdoor.Bifrose.
The company claims it’s blocked 36% more malware in the second quarter than in the same period last year. That equates, on average, to a staggering 4,575 malware encounters for each customer.
ScanSafe senior security researcher Mary Landesman said:
“It is alarming that the prevalence of data-theft Trojans has increased so significantly this quarter, but not surprising.”
“Stolen data is in high demand and in this economy cyber criminals are motivated to develop increasingly sophisticated tactics to obtain it.”