Cyber Threats In 2012: Looking Both Ways

By Adam Kujawa, Malware Intelligence Analyst, Malwarebytes

The biggest threat in 2012 was the end of the world and since I am writing this now, we can say for sure that it did not happen. Although, can we say the world is the same, at least in cyberspace? The year 2012 was very important to pointing out that our privacy; anonymity and security are entirely up for grabs when it comes to cyber threats. We faced some of the most nefarious social engineering attempts and a serious shift in how people are becoming victims. This blog post is going to talk about the biggest of those threats: what they are, how we have been fighting against them and where we stand. I will also touch on what to expect from these same threats in 2013 as well as what new threats we may face over the next year.

State Sponsored

This past year was very good for finding state-sponsored malware. Over the course of the year, Kaspersky discovered four different state-sponsored malware:

• Flame
• Gauss
• Mini-Flame
• Shamoon

It also found a connection between all of them and a connection back to the first state-sponsored malware found in the wild, Stuxnet. They were all found in the general same part of the world on networks belonging to various governments.

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