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February 27, 2013

Rising Cyber Attacks on Mobile Devices

With mobility becoming increasingly useful in almost every industry, used for both personal- and work-related reasons (thanks to the BYOD trend), the amount of sensitive information being stolen has reached heightened levels.

To figure out a way to put an end to this problem, the Nominum (News - Alert) security team analyzed DNS data across the globe, produced from over 140 of the world’s top service providers (which account for 30 percent of the world’s network traffic) to identify the sources of these attacks.

Nominum found the top 10 cyber threats for fixed broadband networks, which included Ngrbot/dorkbot , Spybot, Ramnit and Spambot. These cyber bots have grown resistance and efficiency in their threats by registering new domain names, mobbing their operations to other servers, including the cloud, and creating fake contact phone numbers as a new way to steal consumers sensitive information, as more users tend to trust a “living” customer service representative than a questionable website’s informational questionnaire... Read More

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