A global report analysing cyber crime trends has revealed that attacks are more often pre-planned and malware has grown more sophisticated – but threat detection has improved.
The troubling results were published in Trustwave’s annual Global Security Report, which looked back on 10 years of trends in cybersecurity.
For this report, Trustwave analysed billions of security scans and web transactions, within 21 compromised locations across the globe.
It found that over a quarter (26%) of spam now contains malware – 90% of which use reload after reboot techniques that make remediation difficult.
On the contrary, email spam has declined. In 2008, 85% of all inbound email was spam, in 2017 this dropped to 39%, but 26% of this spam still did contain malware....