Cybercrime based on records from year to year showed a significant increase. Costs incurred would be devastating, ranging from loss of time, loss of business opportunities, up polluted reputation or good name.
Several important points will be expected ESET computer security trends in 2015 include the following attacks focused on specific targets (Advanced Persistent Threats / APT), an attack on the online payment system, attacks Point of Sales (POS) system, and related attacks Bitcoin, Ransomware, and Malware. Finally, the target of another attack which also increased from year to year are digital devices, such as notebooks, smartphones, tablets, and even other smart devices.
Attacks that focus on specific target (Advanced Persistent Threats / APT) is different from a conventional attack is known so far. There are two fundamental differences between the APT attacks and conventional attacks.
First, most of the attacks APT choose specific attack targets, whereas conventional attack random attack to the target computer business people or companies that careless security system or open to attack. The second reason, cederung APT attacks persist in the system undetected for a long time. These attacks often take advantage of social engineering techniques or Zero Day Exploit.
According to reports APTnotes (website which summarizes APT attacks based on public documents), APT attacks increased during the past few years. Recorded from three attacks in 2010 increased to 53 attacks that were identified during the year 2014.
Trends in the second attack targeting the online payment system via the Internet. Online payment system is still interesting for cybercrime perpetrators on the Internet due to the high number of users (target) which means that reflects also the number of data, including the number of transactions in it.
Attacks on Point of Sales (POS) System is expected to increase given the conventional POS system is still widely used. Sejau has recorded a series of worm attacks on the system. ESET detects the presence of the worm Win32 / BrutPOS on PoS System. The modus operandi is to do overused passwords to log in through the facilities of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
ESET also detect some malware from PoS family, like JacksPos or Dexter, who is believed to attack the online retailers, such as Target (resulting in 40 million consumer data exposed), Home Depot (as many as 56 million consumer data exposed).
As the trend in previous years, malware developers are still looking for a potential gap in order to penetrate and inject a homemade program. Bitcoin or digital currency that is widely used on the Internet are also not spared from the target in the 2015's. Bitcoin is predicted to be a new model of ransom demanded by the spreader ransomware.
At the beginning of 2014 and then, a successful attack to break SecureMac website, where users are infected MacOS Bitcoin miner. Initially the attack spread as an application Bitcoin App, unfortunately the application only contains a Trojan.
Ransomware will be a mainstay for malware developers as well as a threat that will remain interfere in 2015. Ransomware variant is expected to be growing with the additional capability variations.
In July last year, ESET security experts published an analysis of ransomware Simplocker in Android, which constitute the first Crypto-Ransomware encrypt files on Android. In a discussion forum "Cybercrime 2020" at Georgetown University, USA, stated Ransomware will be consumer cybercrime in the future.
In connection with attacks targeting to digital devices, sooner or later it will happen. Any digital device connected to the Internet, ranging from home appliances, home security, until the weather observer, it would have targeted cybercrime perpetrators for the sake of profit.
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