Online crooks are seen imbibing corporate-best-practices, implying their ever-increasing e-threats are affecting both consumers and businesses, cautions Symantec. In 2015, there were 9 'mega-breaches.' Given that, Symantec's latest year-in-review report computes over one-half billion records consisting of financial and personal information as stolen the same year.
Professional attackers lay hands on 0-day security flaws, either utilizing them to serve own purposes else making a sale deal of them with crooks of lower levels and fast commoditizing them. Last year (2015) there was a more than twice the total count of 0-day flaws making a fresh record of 54, growing 125 percent since 2014. Besides, new malware samples found numbered 430m.
Since 0-days get exploited explosively, it only shows hackers' growing skills with them. Symantec reports that considering these flaws' worth, it isn't astonishing that a marketable sale now exists for satisfying demand. These vulnerabilities assisted PC-hackers to steal huge volumes of personal information.
