Sophos Research Report Sample

Overview

Since the virus threat first appeared on the business radar in the mid-1980s, the nature of the menace has changed considerably.

Spreading slowly via floppy disks, and knowing nothing of network drives or email, let alone the internet, early viruses were written by mischief-makers, keen to gain notoriety and kudos for their creations, or to create mindless damage. The motivation has changed over recent years and malicious software (malware) is now largely in the hands of organized criminal gangs, who have no interest in creating headlines for themselves, but do want to steal identities, hijack computers and compromise them in order to send spam, and blackmail companies with distributed denial-of-service attacks.

Top host for malware – Blogger (Blogspot.com) Financially motivated criminals are creating and spreading new malicious code at an accelerated rate. According to independent testing organization av-test.org, there are now over 11 million unique malware samples in its collection.....