ScanSafe Annual Global Threat Report

What does a trillion Web requests tell us about the state of the Web today? It's not a pretty story. Critical verticals are at heightened risk of attack via the Web. Most disturbingly, data theft trojans continue to be particularly problematic for companies in critical sectors:

• Energy & Oil (356% increase)
• Pharmaceutical & Chemical (322% increase)
• Government (252% increase)
• Banking & Finance (204% increase)

Not unexpectedly (for those watching the numbers), the Gumblar botnet dominated in 2009, at 14% of all Web malware blocks compared to Asprox (2%) and Zeus (1%). Overall, 19% all Web malware were direct encounters with data theft trojans and 23% of all Web malware encounters were zero-day threats not blocked by signatures (but picked up by ScanSafe's Outbreak Intelligence). Also not a surprise - malicious PDF's were the most commonly encountered exploit, seconded by Flash.

Overall, Web malware more than doubled throughout the year from an average of 8 encounters per day per customer at the beginning of 2009 to 19 encounters per day at the end of 2009.

The complete ScanSafe Annual Global Threat Report can be downloaded here.