Sophos Security Threat Report 2007
- Source:
- Spam / Anti-Spam
- Published:
- Apr 13, 2009
- Pages:
- 18
The first six months of 2007 continued 2006's trend of rapidly mutating virus and spam campaigns. Small targeted attacks were favored rather than the large-scale, high-profile attacks of a few years ago. The web in particular continued to be a growing and significant source of threats, being overrun with Trojans, spyware and adware, potentially unwanted applications and undesirable websites.
25 years ago, the first virus (called Elk Cloner) was written by a 5-year-old prankster to infect Apple II floppy disks and display a poem every 50th computer boot. Since then, things have changed somewhat. By June 2007, Sophos was protecting against 257,313 threats, 49,629 of them
new since the end of December 2006. The motivation continued to be financial - spyware-infected websites, spammed email and traditional desktop threats all aimed at stealing confidential information or generating income.
Increased flexibility in working practices, new and more complex operational threat methods, and a raft of new scams have continued to place a heavy burden on businesses. New laws are being applied with increasing vigor, but once again the threat landscape remains challenging for the months ahead.
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