The target of attacks has shifted from traditional infrastructure to mobile users and endpoint devices. As the security of mobile networks has improved, mobile devices are increasingly the target of attacks, while social networking sites are quickly becoming cybercriminals’ platform of choice to expand and propagate destructive botnets. Anti-virus software is losing the battle against malware – the new breed of malware is virtually undetectable by current scanning software.
I appreciate the linked article, except that it was too brief. More details on just what the black hats are doing, how they do it, and what you can do to protect yourself would be useful.
Edited 2011-01-19 23:58 UTC
Indeed especially since this seems to be someone’s conclusions of a someone else’s report. Would have made wonders to also know exactly how this “research” was conducted. I managed to find some outfit called Spiderlabs and the report in question seems to be “Trustwave’s 2011 Global Security Report” but since they wanted me to give them personal information just to download it I am not sure.
Trustwave also, coincidentally, sells all the services that the linked article concludes that we need.
Edited 2011-01-20 10:44 UTC
So their name is “Trustwave” and they want personal information just to download a document they dubbed “global security report”… I don’t know but I seem to see irony there.
“Anti-virus software is losing the battle against malware”
ops I have heard the same thing the last year
so antivirus is only a waste of money, but we know that
Of course, it should be:
Update: Anti-virus software is still losing the battle against malware.