Kaspersky: cyber attacks against companies doubled in 2014

Kaspersky new report said that cyber attacks on corporate sector doubled in the year 2014.

 The Group has informed analysis and global research company Kaspersky Lab reported seven advanced electronic and continuous campaigns last year. The campaigns over 4400 of the corporate sector in at least 55 countries around the world, up more than double the attacks that targeted companies in 2013, a total of 1,800 onslaught.

 Kaspersky Lab reported that organizations in at least 20 vital sector was, in 2014, by actors on advanced threats, and that he was targeting public institutions, including government offices and diplomatic, with more attacks on sensitive financial and industrial sectors in the private sector, including attacks on media organizations.

 It speculated that the attacks are, in many cases, carried out by entities sponsored by States, as well as the analysis of my campaign Mask/Careto And Regin, while the remainder may be outweighed by professional hackers to perform attacks such as type of service, as in the cases, Hacking Team 2.0, f Dark hotel, f Cosmic Duke, and Epic Turla, and other campaigns. Kaspersky Lab noted that campaign Regin The threat is the first actor who managed to infiltrate and monitor the networks ' global system for mobile communications GSM, as well as other spy missions "standard".

 Security experts at Kaspersky Lab, Alex gustave said, the target could mean disaster for the victim, as it resulted in the diversion of sensitive information, such as intellectual property, and corporate networks and business processes for interruptions, data for the survey.

 In 2014 the number of phishing campaigns that led to losses amounting to millions of dollars in June /Last June, the experts of the Kaspersky Lab research concerning the attack on a huge European Bank clients. It also published "global research and analysis team of the company in October /October findings in a direct attack on ATMs in Asia, Europe and Latin America, resulting in the theft of millions of dollars from ATMs all over the world without the required attackers to obtain credit cards.

 In Kaspersky Outlook 2015 ″, experts predict that more sophisticated attacks that target the ATM, where you will be using the techniques developed persistent attacks to gain access to the brain "ATM", noting that the coming phase will witness the attacker to compromise the financial banking networks and use this level of access to manipulate ATM machines in real time.