Cyveillance Test Reveals Majority of Malware and Phishing Attacks Undetected by Leading A/V Vendors and Web Browsers According to Company's Latest Cyber Intelligence Report: Detection Rates for Malware are Getting Worse and Anti-Phishing Filters Detect Less than Fifty Percent of Attacks. Cyveillance, the world leader in cyber intelligence, today announced that a recent test of best-of-breed anti-virus vendors and Web browser anti-phishing filters revealed that more than half of active malware and phishing threats on the Internet go undetected, with an average detection rate of 37 percent for malware and 42 percent for phishing. This data was captured as part of Cyveillance's "2H 2008 Cyber Intelligence Report," which was issued today. Arlington, VA (PRWEB) February 2, 2009 Cyveillance, the world leader in cyber intelligence, today announced that a recent test of best-of-breed anti-virus vendors and Web browser anti-phishing filters revealed that more than half of active malware and phishing threats on the Internet go undetected, with an average detection rate of 37 percent for malware and 42 percent for phishing. This data(1) was captured as part of Cyveillance's "2H 2008 Cyber Intelligence Report," which was issued today. "Given the dynamic nature of today's online threats and the traditionally reactive approach taken by today's malware and phishing detection technology, conventional signature-based solutions are inherently at a disadvantage to keep up," said Panos Anastassiadis, CEO and Chairman of Cyveillance. "Because the majority of damage occurs during the first 24 hours of an attack, early detection of attacks is crucial. By combining today's defensive technologies with proactive intelligence gathered in real-time, organizations can significantly limit the harm inflicted by today's dynamically changing threats." In addition to a detailed evaluation of the effectiveness of leading anti-virus malware detection and Web browser anti-phishing technologies, the report also tracks the online "fraud chain" comprised of malware components that store and serve malware executables, distribute malware to consumers, and receive and store the confidential information collected from infected computers. Other key report findings include:
Anti-virus Malware and Web Browser Test Results
Malware
Because anti-virus solutions primarily detect previously identified malware threats, perpetrators quickly replace recently discovered malware threats with modified versions and exploit this discovery lag-time to evade detection and infect unsuspecting machines. As such, the Cyveillance test which took place between November 30 and December 29, 2008, looked at twelve best-of-breed anti-virus vendor solution(2), deployed in their default settings with auto-update features enabled to ensure all malware signatures were within vendor parameters. Phishing
To better understand the daily risks consumers face from phishing attacks, Cyveillance test sampled unique and confirmed phishing attacks uncovered against a variety of organizations. To measure the effectiveness of some of today's leading consumer anti-phishing protections (3), Cyveillance fed these confirmed live attacks through four of the most widely used browsers with embedded anti-phishing technology. The data was fed in real-time to each browser and then again 24 hours later to determine detection rates over a minimal period of time. All figures and statistics in the Cyveillance "2H 2008 Cyber Intelligence Report" are actual measurements rather than projections based upon sample datasets. The cyber intelligence included in this report includes data collected and analyzed between July 1 and December 31, 2008. It represents aggregate cyber intelligence findings that Cyveillance has delivered to its OEM data partners, except where otherwise noted. For more information about Cyveillance's research findings, please visit: http://www.cyveillance.com/web/forms/request.asp?getFile=113. About Cyveillance:
(1) Cyveillance's comprehensive monitoring technology continuously sweeps the Internet - monitoring and collecting information from over 200 million unique domain name servers, 150 million unique Web sites, 80 million blogs, 90,000 message boards, thousands of IRC/Chat channels, billions of spam emails, auction sites, bot networks and more. This approach yields the discovery of more than 100,000 new sites each day. (2) Vendors tested included F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, Sunbelt, Sophos, Trend Micro, Dr. Web, AVG, Eset Nod32, F-Prot, Virus Buster and Norman. Symantec data was inconclusive at time of publication and was not included in the test results. (3) Vendors tested included Firefox, Safari, Chrome and IE7. ###
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