Hackers going corporate with new attack attitudes, research shows

It’s a mean and nasty cyber world out there, and it’s getting more organized.

Symantec’s latest Internet Security Threat Report, which looks at 2015, concludes that cybercriminals are going corporate – not for raids – but in establishing best practices and conducting their affairs like a business.

The spinoff of those efforts was equally troubling. In 2015, Zero-Day attacks doubled to 54 (the most ever). And malware revealed 430 million new variants.

The measurable results were down right scary, including the largest data breach ever with 191 million records compromised from an improperly configured database of registered U.S. voters. In 2015, there were a record nine mega-breaches (minimum 10 million records), 429 million identities stolen, a 35 percent growth in crypto-ransomeware attacks, and a resurgence of familiar deceptions including a 200 percent rise in fake tech support scams.

But it wasn’t just the action of hackers that researchers noted. It also was the fact that breached companies aren’t always reporting accurately. For the full article click here 

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