Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Tracks Notable Rise in Cybercrime Activity
March 25, 2006
...While past attacks were designed to destroy data, today’s attacks are increasingly designed to silently steal data for profit without doing noticeable damage that would alert a user to its presence. In the previous Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec cautioned that malicious code for profit was on the rise, and this trend continued during the second half of 2005. Malicious code threats that could reveal confidential information rose from 74 percent of the top 50 malicious code samples last period to 80 percent this period.
Source: http://www.symantec.com/
Source: http://www.symantec.com/