Five out of every six large companies – those with over 2,500 employees – were targeted with spear-phishing attacks or e-mail fraud in 2014, up 40 percent on year, the report showed. Attacks on small- and medium-sized companies, which accounted for 60 percent of targeted attacks, increased 26 and 30 percent, respectively.
Nearly 1 million new malware threats including a variety of hostile software such as viruses, spyware, trojan horses and malicious programs were released every day, according to the report, which analyzed emerging trends in attacks, malicious code activity, phishing and spam.
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