Apart from targeted attacks, trends in "traditional" cybercrime are now hitting the unexpected:
1. Online Banking malware sport new routines: Do you know online banking malware creators updated their portfolios yet again with the addition of new routines to their usual weapons of choice. For example: Malware ready for 64-bit version, spam attachment, or use of nonexisting WhatsApp desktop client as lure to spread. They target Banking industry. Though they sported new routines, online banking malware retained their core. They continued to be widespread in the same countries—United States (23%), Japan (10%), and India (9%)—and grow in number amid the steady rise of the number of Internet users and online transactions. In fact, the online banking malware volume showed a 3% increase to 116,000 this quarter from 113,000 in the first quarter of 2013.
2. PoS and Retail business are related: Do you know that PoS systems are difficult to secure but yet is the target for attackers? Do you know that roughly the personal information of 70 million of the retailer’s customers landed in the attackers’ hand after they successfully breached its decades-old and vulnerable PoS system network. They can be attacked in three ways—hacking the devices, hacking network communications, or targeting specific servers