It’s a pretty well-known fact that far more crime occurs than gets reported to authorities, and far more gets reported to the authorities than gets reported on by any form of media. Cybersecurity attacks are no different.
Because we assist in the investigation and incident response of many of these cases, we’re constantly on the lookout for reporting of those incidents by independent sources. By our own research, 1 attack gets reported in the media for at least 73 that happen without any mention to the public. Of those, we see scant few actually make it to what most would consider “mainstream media”.
Stuxnet is the most recent example of a named malware attack that made the prime time news, and it joins the ranks of Code Red, Nimda, and (to a lesser degree) Zeus in the public lexicon of big attacks. However, the ones that never make it to the front page show both an increasing technical sophistication, and a more focused set of attack goals.
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