Carbon Black Reports 1 Million-Plus Security Attacks Daily

Security reports from Carbon Black and Check Point Software, and a new Department of Homeland Security warning about domain name system (DNS) infrastructure attacks, promise that the year ahead will feature an active, increasingly sophisticated, and diversifying threat landscape. Last year also saw an active threat landscape, according Carbon Black. Its new report, Carbon Black Global Threat Report: The Year of the Next-Gen Cyberattack, found that its clients averaged two attacks per protected end point per month. In all, a Carbon Black client organization of at least 10,000 protected endpoints experienced more than 660 cyberattacks daily. There were more than 1 million attacks daily across its customer base. China and Russia were responsible for almost half of the incident response episodes. The leading targets were computer/electronics, healthcare, business services, software/internet, and manufacturing.