December 18, 2013

Kaspersky Lab’s experts have made their predictions about 2014. Not surprisingly, much of what they have seen in their crystal balls is connected to the fall-out from Edward Snowden’s revelations….

The report reveal facts on Malware evolution, Corporate Threats and overall statistics for 2013. Also they published Expert Opinions on forecasts for the coming year cyber threats:

Some 2013 figures:

• According to KSN data, in 2013 Kaspersky Lab products neutralized 5 188 740 554 cyber-attacks on user computers and mobile devices
  
  
• 104 427 new modifications of malicious programs for mobile devices were detected.
  
  
• Kaspersky Lab products neutralized 1 700 870 654 attacks launched from online resources located all over the world.
  
  
• Kaspersky Lab products detected almost 3 billion malware attacks on user computers. A total of 1.8 million malicious and potentially unwanted programs were detected in these attacks.
  
  
• 45% of web attacks neutralized by Kaspersky Lab products were launched from malicious web resources located in the USA and Russia.

Full details on the following link:

http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792320/Kaspersky_SecurityBulletin_2013_Forecasts

or download a pdf version of the report here.