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APWG Q4 Report: Phishers Target Retail Sites While Crimeware Proliferation Explodes

May 2015 by APWG

The APWG reports in its new Phishing
Activity Trends Report that during the 4th quarter of 2014, a record
number of crimeware variants were detected, a strategy of overwhelming
proliferation of variations designed to defeat antivirus software.
Meanwhile, phishers increasingly targeted retail and service sites,
hoping to take advantage of the burgeoning numbers of online shoppers.

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During the 4th quarter of 2014 the number of malware variants figure
broke a new record, with 23,500,000 malware samples detected—an average
of 255,000 new threats each day, according to Trends Report contributor,
PandaLabs. This was up 59 percent from 160,000 samples per day in the
second quarter of 2014.

Never in the history of computer security has the amount of new malware
created been so high, according to Luis Corrons, PandaLabs Technical
Director and Trends Report contributing analyst. The great majority of
these malware strains are variants of existing malware modified by their
creators to evade antivirus software used by Internet consumers. The
escalating numbers illustrate the adaptability of the code and the
creativity of the malware authors in extending the polymorphic
obscuration scheme to such a degree. About one-third of computers
worldwide were probably infected with malware of some sort, according to
Corrons.

Retail/Service was the most-targeted industry sector in the fourth
quarter of 2014, representing 29.37 percent of phishing sites, not a
great surprise during the holiday season. Payment Services continued to
be popular targets, with 25.13 percent of attacks during the three-month
period, according to APWG member Internet Identity. “The final quarter
of 2014 also witnessed a raft of email-based phishing attempts against
well-established financial institutions, possibly timed to coincide with
both the holiday spending increase and heightened consumer fears in the
wake of corporate security breaches,” said Carl Leonard, Principal
Security Analyst, Websense Security Labs.

The full text of the report is available here:
http://docs.apwg.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_q4_2014.pdf


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