Infosecurity – Anecdotally, it feels like the good guys are losing ground to the tide of worldwide malware. Stats unfortunately bear that out: new research has revealed that malware activity has become so pervasive globally that attack servers communicating with malware are now hosted in 206 countries and territories.
FireEye in 2013 recorded more than 40,000 unique cyber-attacks (more than 100 per day) and more than 22 million malware command-and-control (CnC) communications, which routinely bypass traditional defenses such as firewalls, next-generation firewalls, IPS, anti-virus and security gateways with evolving advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics.
