Kaspersky sees surge in Bitcoin Wallet Attacks in Q1 2014

Kaspersky has revealed threat report for Q1 2014. The first quarter saw a major cyber-espionage incident.

“As well as new incidents, we saw the continuation of campaigns that had seemingly already ended. For instance, after cybercriminals had shut down all the known command servers involved in the Icefog operation, we detected a Java version of the threat. The previous attack had primarily targeted organizations in South Korea and Japan, but the new version, judging by the IP addresses tracked, was only interested in US organizations,” commented Alexander
Gostev, Chief Security Expert, Global Research and Analysis Team.

The report revealed that in Q1, 33.2% of user computers worldwide were subjected to at least one web-based attack during the past three months – a decrease of 5.9 percentage points compared to the same period last year. 39% of neutralized web attacks were carried out using malicious web resources located in the US and Russia. The combined figure for the same two countries was 5 percentage points higher in Q1 2013. They were followed by the Netherlands (10.8%), Germany (10.5%) and the UK (6.3%).