ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

McAfee published an interesting report yesterday about what they called Operation Shady RAT, focusing on a series of what some may call “advance persistent threat” attacks. The attacks were dubbed in some quarters as “one of the largest series of cyber attacks ever.” While quite a bit of data was presented regarding the potential scale of these attacks, details on the threats and how the attacks were staged were somewhat limited.

The rate of unique web malware more than doubled in the second quarter, from 105,536 unique encounters of web malware in March 2011 to 287,298 unique encounters in June 2011, according to Cisco’s latest quarterly threat report.