ID: IRCNE2013021770
Date: 2013-02-23
According to "zdnet", financial services has been a favorite target for sophisticated attacks in the last few years, but cyber criminals are moving on to other "critical sectors of the economy," according to McAfee.
In the security giant's fourth quarter threats report, researchers highlighted some of the new schemes being used in this regard and other high-profile attacks, including advanced persistent threats (APTs) such as Operation High Roller and Project Blitzkrieg. Both of these methods attack financial services infrastructures.
Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs, explained in the report why many of these cyber criminals are becoming more interested in government, manufacturing and commercial transaction infrastructure targets.
Researchers also predicted that these attacks will actually decline throughout 2013 -- only to be replaced by attacks "sponsored and executed by state actors."
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