Fire Eye Alerts: 95% Firms Incapable of Guarding Malware

Fire Eye, a Security Firm today (February 14, 2012) declared that researches conducted during their second half (2H) of 2011 Advanced Threat Report shed light on the superiority of highly developed targeted attacks and the accomplishment of cyber criminals that are being penetrating today's corporate networks, according to the news published in Market Watch on February 14,2012. The degree of the risk was held during a new report displayed by the firm, on the basis of its analysis of evens at its global customers that have dodged the conventional defenses.

Earlier, the Company found a significant difference between the enterprise IT defenses of today, as highly developed malware and beleaguered attacks are effortlessly evading conventional defenses including antivirus, intrusion prevention system, firewalls, and web/email gateway. This trend is still the same. This time, Fire Eye found that 95% of the enterprises have had spiteful infections inflowing the network every week with 80% of the enterprise tolerating more than 100 new cases per week.

Fire Eye research initiated that the most rapid growing malware types during the second half of 2011 were pay-per-install (PPI) and information seekers that aims the user credentials that permits the theft of the main intellectual property and confidential information.

"What's happening is the isolation of the malware market, allowing people to invest in contaminated machines, and the others to look towards renting the same for any means that can turn out to be profitable," said James Todd, European technical head at FireEye, as per the news published in V3.co.uk on February 14, 2012.

During the second half of 2011, PPI downloader's, worms, backdoors, and information stealers characterized the four most widespread categories of malware. PPIs can be defined as the malware programs that cost nothing to download or allocate other malware programs. These malware programs are entirely different from the normal downloader's/droppers as a PPI malware writer is paid for all the successful installation of a malware program. Out of the topmost four categories of malwares, information stealers and backdoor present the greatest risk to enterprise.

Moreover, the creation of zero-day attacks, that are aimed at vulnerabilities that has no security patch, is revealing enterprise data to all important risk of being compromised, said by Todd.

According to FireEye, usually malware writers were targeting system as JavaScript which function on a multitude of enterprise devices. However according to firm, as criminals demeanor advanced goal-oriented attack operations; enterprises must strengthen conventional defenses with a new layer of superb quality of security which can catch attacks.

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