BENGALURU: Every year Kaspersky Lab experts evaluate the level of cyber-threats. In 2014 we saw considerable growth in the number of malicious attacks on user computers and mobile devices, further development of financial malware and a change in the vectors of web attacks. In 2013, most web attacks were carried out using malicious web resources located in the U.S. and Russia while in 2014 Germany hosted more malicious sites than everywhere except the USA. The Netherlands remained in 3rd place. 

 2014 in figures

6.2 billion malicious attacks on user computers and mobile devices were blocked by Kaspersky Lab antivirus products in 2014, one billion more than in 2013.

38 percent of user computers were subjected to at least one web attack over the year.

44 percent of web attacks neutralized by Kaspersky Lab products were carried out using malicious web resources located in the U.S. (27.5 percent of all attacks) and Germany (16.6 percent). The Netherlands (13.4 percent) came 3rd.

Attempts to steal money via online access to bank accounts were blocked on almost 2,000,000 user computers.

Kaspersky Lab products protected their users from an average of 3.9 million Internet-based attacks a day.

Kaspersky Lab's web antivirus detected over 123,000,000 unique malicious objects: 74 percent of them were found at malicious URLs.

A total of 3.7 million attempts to infect OS X- based computers were blocked by Kaspersky Lab products

An average Mac user encountered 9 threats during the year

Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 1.4 million attacks on Android-based devices, four times as many as last year.
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Mobile threats

295,500 new mobile malicious programs, 2.8 times as many as in 2013

12,100 mobile banking Trojans, 9 times as many as last year

53 percent of attacks involved mobile Trojans targeting users’ money (SMS-Trojans, banking Trojans)

19 percent of Android users (one in five) encountered a mobile threat at least once over the year.

Mobile malware attacks were registered in more than 200 countries worldwide

“2011 was the year of mobile malware formation, especially on Android-based devices; 2012 was when they developed and 2013 was when they reached maturity. In 2014 mobile malware focused on financial issues: the number of mobile banking Trojans was nine times greater than in the previous year and developing in this area is continuing at an alarming rate,” said Roman Unuchek, Senior Mobile Malware Analyst at Kaspersky Lab.
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