Welcome to the February edition of the Symantec Intelligence report. Symantec Intelligence aims to provide the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends, and insights concerning malware, spam, and other potentially harmful business risks.
W32.Ramnit!html was the most common malware blocked in February. W32.Ramnit variants have dominated the top-ten malware list for quite some time. However, near the end of the month, a law enforcement operation led by Europol and assisted by Symantec, Microsoft, and a number of other industry partners, seized infrastructure owned by the cybercrime group behind Ramnit. It is likely that Ramnit’s placement within the top ten list will be impacted by these actions in the coming months.
The largest data breach reported during February took place in January, and resulted in the exposure of 80 million identities. There were six data breaches reported in February that took place during the same month. This number is likely to rise as more data breaches that occurred during the month are reported.
In other news, the average number of spear-phishing attacks rose to 65 per day in February, up from 42 in January. There were 400 vulnerabilities and one zero-day vulnerability disclosed during February.
We hope you enjoy the February Symantec Intelligence Report. You can download your copy here.