Windows And Android Malware Continue To Steal The Show
#2 While Trojans grabbed the major share of the pie at 77 percent of reported detections, Bots and Backdoors stole the next chunk at 15 percent.
#3 The most notable botnet incident of 2013 was the birth of the CryptoLocker. Delivered by botnets and devised to extort money by encrypting files and holding them on ransom, this ransomware adds itself to the list of Windows startup programs.
#4 Web-based malware also included a new breed of online fraud – Watering Hole attacks. In these attacks, a compromised system can give the attacker a freeway to carry out a host of activities, including reading emails, viewing stored data, stealing username and passwords, or installing key loggers.
#5 A whopping 800 percent surge in Android malware samples received.
#6 Total malicious programs detected by Quick Heal amounted to 431397.
#7 Attackers are quickly adapting to a mobile-friendly eco-system.
#8 Security in App stores still a cause for concern and user data leakages through malicious apps still continues.
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