McAfee Quarterly Report Released: We Are Still Vulnerable To Attacks

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In the previous month June 2014, McAfee released its quarterly insecurity reports, which simply concludes that we are still vulnerable to attacks. In fact, according to the report, it is very clear that the situation is getting worse at an increasing speed. The well researched McAfee report has revealed certain daunting facts that need an immediate attention and remedial steps, otherwise, there could be more advanced attacks having increased infiltration, reconnaissance, and persistence features.  

 One major frightening stat that the McAfee report revealed is that, there is a massive increase in the number of mobile malware. On comparing the total number of mobile malware as identified by McAfee in the first quarter of 2012, which was up to a few thousand instances. They have now increased to nearly 4 million unique forms. In terms of new mobile malware, there are about 800,000 instances in each quarter. 

The reports also mentions about the malware infected clones of Flappy Birds game app. McAfee labs has found that 79 percent of sampled clone apps of the popular game, were containing malware. The only purpose of the criminals behind developing a malicious version of popular Android apps is to invade into the user’s mobile devices and then perform illegal actions like installing additional apps, extracting contact list, stealing sensitive data, and tracking phone calls, locations, and messages etc. The company report revealed that a lot of attacks are now getting onto mobile devices through Adobe updates or game apps, and are attacking services like Whatspp and Google Wallet. In the past few months botnet mining was also found to be active on mobile devices. Although later it was found out that botnet mining in mobile devices is not that profitable.  

“The year 2014 has already given us ample evidence that mobile malware developers are playing on these inclinations, to manipulate the familiar, legitimate features in the mobile apps and services we recognize and trust. Developers must become more vigilant with the controls they build into these apps, and users must be more mindful of what permissions they grant” said Vincent Weafer, senior vice president, McAfee Labs.  

   

Besides this alarming report about the rise in the Android malware, McAfee labs also revealed that the web based attacks through malicious URLs have more than doubled in one year period. In the previous year there were nearly 8M instances and now it is over 18M. Most of the servers that are hosting dangerous content and the phishing websites are situated/hosted in the US. The instances of signed malware also raised from 1M instances to 3M instances. There is also an increase in the network attacks with DOS accounting 25 percent of attack, Brute Force accounting 18 percent, Browser attack accounting 16 percent, and so on. 

 

The only conclusion that generates from this report is that the attacks are on a rise. One can’t hide from this increasing problem. However, necessary preventive measures can be taken in order to avoid any kind of security/data breach. Installing good antivirus solutions like McAfee Antivirus and Internet Security solution, being one of the preventive measures. They are reliable security solutions that provide an always-on proactive protection from all kinds of attacks and multiple handy features to remove infections. Plus if a need of support for McAfee is felt, then you can avail help from the experts by dialing McAfeecustomer service phone number. 

All in all, the facts and figures clearly show that now, there are more number of malware variants and attacks (offline and online) existing then they ever existed. Using reliable and strong security solutions and staying updated with data security trends are two easy ways to stay protected. Plus staying in contact with expert support companies like SupportMart and others also helps. They are reliable and good sources of technical help. All you have to do is reach them by dialing the toll free number, like HP support number, PC support number, or antivirus support number etc. and then avail the required help.