Téo Adams's blog

We are pleased to announce that Volume 17 of the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) is now available. There are some significant changes to the report this year, including several new metrics, a revamping of existing metrics, and a revised format.

There’s been lots of discussion lately on targeted attacks which are, as the name implies, cyberattacks directed at specific individuals, organizations, corporations, or sectors. These targeted attacks, particularly on critical infrastructure, are the focus of our Symantec Intelligence Quarterly Report: October – December 2010.

Search results and malicious websites

Ranks and podium finishes are no doubt one of the key highlights of the recently concluded 2010 Olympic winter games. Likewise, rankings are an aspect of many metrics used for analysis in the Symantec Global Internet Security Threat Report and there was a somewhat surprising change in the top ranks of malicious activity by country in 2009.

Given their financial motivations, the distributors of rogue security software scams need to affect a broad number of potential victims. Getting the program onto a victim’s computer is a critical step in rogue security software scams and the scammers use a variety of techniques to do so.