The 2015 Global Threat Intelligence Report highlights that the financial services industry is the most targeted sector, accounting for 18% of all detected attacks, with a decrease of 2% compared to the previous year. Over 6 billion attacks were noted, primarily originating from the US, and the financial services sector demonstrated a strong incident response capability despite 74% of organizations lacking a formal incident response plan. The report emphasizes a shift in attacks from applications to end-user systems, with the majority of vulnerabilities related to personal devices increasingly exploited by cybercriminals.

1. 2015 Global Threat
Intelligence Report
An analysis of security trends in the
Financial Services industry
• over 6 billion attacks
• trillions of logs
• over 18,000 clients
• 28% Financial Services
industry respondents
Data gathered from NTT security
companies and NTT’s live Global
Threat Intelligence Platform
56% of attacks
originate from
IP addresses
within the US
but attackers
could be
anywhere in
the world
Attack analysis
Attack sources
US
56% China
9%
France
2%
India
1.5%
Germany
2%
Netherlands
2%
Denmark
1.1%
Russia
2%
Ukraine
1.3%
Canada
0.9%
Australia
9%
Rest 9%
UK
3%
Attacks by sector
• Finance sector still #1 target
with 18% of all detected attacks
Finance
0%
2%
4%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
6%
Business
&professional
Manufacturing
Retail
Healthcare
Technology
Education
Government
Pharmaceuticals
Insurance
Transport&
distribution
Gaming
Media
Hospitality,leisure
&entertainment
Non-profit
Other
• However, this is a slight decrease of
2% from the previous year
Attacks and incident response
• Reconnaissance activity from 4% to 10%
• Crafted attacks on targeted victims more common
Other 5%
Known Bad Source 3%
Evasion Attempts 3%
DoS / DDoS 5%
Application
Specific Attack 7%
Reconaissance 10%
Anomalous Activity 20%
Network Manipulation 18%
Web Application Attack 15%
Service Specific Attack 14%
Attacks by type
6% 32%of all Malware attacks are in the
Financial Services sector
Malware attacks have reduced 2%
year-on-year in this sector
The Financial Services sector has one
of the lowest Malware attack rates.
of Incident Response Engagements came
from the Financial Services industry.
The sector’s sensitivity to attacks has
driven the prevalence of formal incident
response processes and procedures.
The sector’s response rate is twice that
of the next most active sector,
Business Services (16%)

2. dimensiondata.com/globalthreatreport #GlobalThreatReport
Threat intelligence defined
2. Raw information
collected based on
requirements
3. Information
processed exploited
4. Intelligence
analysis
production
1.Consumer needs,
planning, requirements
direction
5. Dissemination
of product
to consumer
Attacks have shifted
from application
to user
7 / 10 vulnerabilities
relate to end-user systems
Users connected
to public network
using personal,
and often more
vulnerable devices
End-user exploits
spike after weekends
/ holidays when
users reconnect
End-user systems
often have unpatched
vulnerabilities
• 76% of vulnerabilities
+ 2 years old
• 9% of those +10 years old
The user is the perimeter
7/10
Vulnerabilities targeted in exploit kits
Cybercrime is
$$ $ $$ $Software exploit kits sold in hacking forums hackers take advantage
of unpatched flaws install malicious software on vulnerable devices
Increased focus on Adobe Flash since security on Java and Internet Explorer improved in 2014.
Java
Adobe Acrobat
Internet Explorer
Adobe Flash
Firefox
Windows
Silverlight
Others
2013 2014
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Changing profile of cybercriminals
Organised crime groups
with considerable resources
and expertise
Attacks motivated by:
• profit
• botnet infrastructure
• extortion
• fame/notoriety
• hacktivism
Incident response threat intelligence
• Incident response
capabilities maturing
at a slow pace.
• 74% of organisations
have no formal incident
response plan.
Average incident
response time
Organisations
with no
vulnerability
management
programme take
nearly 200 days to
patch vulnerabilities
with CVSS score
of 4.0 or more
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intelligence cycle
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