Sophos and F-Secure's end of year Reports 2005

Dominic White

 
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Sophos and F-Secure's end of year Reports 2005

These were an interesting read. I was quite disappointed with F-Secure's reports. Sophos on the other hand produced a great piece. F-Secure placed far too much effort into advertising and shied away from and in-depth trend analysis, preferring to report on 'in the lab' experiences.

The most interesting tidbit is that attackers seem to be moving away from mass compromise attempts and focusing on targeted trojan installs. This allows them to have a more manageable user base, particularly for phishing scams (spear phishing), they don't need 2 million accounts. This also makes it more difficult to detect as the compromises are smaller and don't involve self-propagating code. Seems like we will have even less of an idea about threats in 2006.

Thursday, December 8. 2005
Posted by Dominic White in Security
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