{"id":4782,"date":"2011-08-23T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/highlights-for-mcafees-q2-threats-report\/"},"modified":"2011-08-23T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T21:28:00","slug":"highlights-for-mcafees-q2-threats-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/highlights-for-mcafees-q2-threats-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights for McAfees Q2 Threats Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/us\/\" style=\"cursor: text;\">McAfee<\/a><br \/>\nreleased the <em>McAfee<br \/>\nThreats Report: Second Quarter 2011, <\/em>which focuses on the latest facts<br \/>\nand trends of malware, cybercriminal activity, and knowledge-based<br \/>\nauthentication. <span><\/span>The report is<br \/>\n24 pages in length, so we have compiled the highlights for you to be able to<br \/>\napply to your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/\" style=\"cursor: text;\">fraud<br \/>\nprevention solutions<\/a>.<br _moz_dirty=\"true\"><br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p><br _moz_dirty=\"\"><br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Malware targeted at Android devices jumped 76%<br \/>\n    since last quarter<\/li>\n<li>Most attacked mobile operating system<\/li>\n<li>2011 busiest ever first half of a year ever: 12<br \/>\n    million unique malware samples<\/li>\n<li>22% increase over 2010<\/li>\n<li>First-ever appearance of Mac fake AV (fake<br \/>\n    anti-virus)<\/li>\n<li>Significant uptick in rootkits<\/li>\n<li>65 million malware samples in McAfees database<\/li>\n<li>Estimated it will reach 75 million by years end<\/li>\n<li>Stealth malware* is demonstrating recent steady<br \/>\n    growth: up almost 38% over 2010<\/li>\n<li>SPAM is at historic low levels<\/li>\n<li>Cybercriminals are purchasing bulk lists of<br \/>\n    emails. <em>See graphic.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br _moz_dirty=\"\"><br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p>*Stealth malware is the tactic of hiding<br \/>\nmalware in a rootkit, which is used by cybercriminals to make it harder to<br \/>\ndetect and more persistent.<br _moz_dirty=\"true\"><br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p> <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today,McAfee\u00a0released the\u00a0McAfee Threats Report: Second Quarter 2011,which focuses on the latest facts and trends of malware, cybercriminal activity, and\u00a0knowledge-based authentication.The report is 24 pages in length, so we have compiled the highlights for you to be able to apply to your\u00a0fraud prevention solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}