CSIS Security Group A/S has briefly engaged with IT Security specialist Stefan Frei, PhD, in order to analyze the volume of Big Data that CSIS stores and which highlights different persistent malware families targeting Turkey. The report is now being made publicly available. CSIS has closely reviewed the report and agrees on the findings as well as we find the conclusions and keyfindings very interesting.
The keyfindings of the project, and which is documented in our paper, includes:
– Emerging countries such as Brazil, South Korea, and Turkey are at increased risk for cyber crime attacks.
– Turkey has 37 times more Sality and 1.6 times more Zeus Gameover infections per 1,000 users than Germany, a country of similar population size but almost double the number of Internet users.
– Threat intelligence from botnets provides live insight into ongoing cyber crime campaigns, the population of infected users, and targeted organizations.
– CSIS recorded on average the addition of 4.3 new web injects per day for the Zeus botnet in the last 12 months, targeting in total more than 2,000 identified organizations.
– It is not so much the absolute level of security that matters, it is about the difference. Cyber criminals exploit the weakest target first.
The document can be downloaded from here:
Cyber Threats Turkey