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ESET
Releases Annual Threat Trends Predictions for 2014: The Challenge of
Internet Privacy
Threats
targeting Android and tablets, increased more than 60% between 2012 and
2013 and the trend is predicted to continue in 2014
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BANGALORE
/ MUMBAI, India - December 20, 2013
ESET®, the global leader in
proactive digital protection with a record of 10 years consecutive
VB100 awards for its award-winning ESET NOD32® technology,
has released today its annual predictions for the threatscape
in the upcoming year "Trends
2014 - The Challenge of Internet Privacy".
This year, in wake of revelations of Edward Snowden related to the US
National Security Agency (NSA), the main topic focuses
on the growing concern expressed by users regarding their
online privacy.
The report is specifically elaborating on three main areas of trends
for 2014:
Loss of privacy and mechanisms to improve protection
on the Internet - the trend of
"going to the cloud" and how it effects privacy; the NSA
and the privacy debate and how can the user protect his information
on the internet (e.g. data encryption).
"The
challenge to internet privacy has not meant a decrease in cases of
people affected by any malicious code or other kind of computer
threat. It can be asserted that concern about privacy is a good
starting point on the user side; however, it is essential for people to
be aware of all aspects of Information Security. Otherwise, it is not
possible to mitigate the impact of computer threats", states the
report.
Computer threats for Android OS - already in its 2013
report, ESET has predicted major increase of Android malware. Comparing
the detections that occurred in 2012 and 2013, they have increased by
more than 60 percent. This significant increase will continue in 2014.
The report prepared by researchers at ESET Latin America's Research
Laboratory in Buenos Aires, notes that cybercriminals are applying
classic attack methodologies of attacks to mobile platforms. On this
basis, the discovery of critical vulnerabilities and their later exploitation
through malicious code represent an evolution of cybercrime
affecting mobile technology.
Other trends - new spread of malicious code in form of
ransomware (e.g. filecoders like Cryptolocker); vulnerabilities in
Java, ever-present and more complex botnets; 64-bit threats and
malicious codes which try to obtain profits by stealing electronic
coins and a variety of non-traditional devices such as smart cars, game
consoles, smart TVs and others which introduce the possibility that in
a future, threats for this kind of technology may be seen.
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