Fortinet reveals Rise in Cyber Attacks
Fortinet has released its latest Threat Landscape report, which details data breaches and attacks such as Sony Europe being hit by another SQL injection attack, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suffering a critical data breach, hacktivism group LulzSec's continued attack on the U.S. government and the rise of spam despite a three-month decline.
The most prominent virus FortiGuard Labs detected during the month of June was, once again, Fraudload.OR, though it also has the ability to download other Trojans and malware to an infected user's system. Fraudload.OR has been very active for nearly two months, no doubt fuelled by the success FakeAV loaders like Fraudload.OR have realized. Recently, bank accounts belonging to a FakeAV operator were frozen by the U.S. District Attorney. Nearly US$15 million was in those accounts highlighting the wealth such operators can achieve using a scam that is now well over three years old.
"We are, indeed, entering a new era of cybersecurity, one where proactive measures are being put in place and June's attacks show the importance of keeping patches up-to-date to help avoid exploitation by malicious code," said Derek Manky, Senior Security Strategist at Fortinet. "It is also important to employ an IPS solution to help block malicious code looking to exploit vulnerable software and a Web application firewall to help protect your public-facing digital assets."
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