Data breaches continue to hit the headlines globally. This infographic looks at how data breaches have evolved over the last year and the threat they pose to organizations globally.

1. 45%of all incidents
Popular hacking approaches include:
Payment card skimmers were used in 94%
of ATM-related data breaches+
Stolen passwords were used in 31% of POS
intrusions+ where a data breach occurred
POS environments were affected in 22%^
of
all security incidents
The average selling prices** for stolen PCI
payment card numbers with CCV2 details are:
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* IBM X-Force Research, 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index, April 2016
+ Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, May 2016
^ 2016 Trustwave Global Security Report
** The Hidden Data Economy, McAfee Labs, Fall 2015
There were 64% more security incidents*
in the last year and the most frequently
occurring types were:
Unauthorized
access
The POS malware families
Trustwave^ encountered
most frequently this
year were:
Types of malware^
noted included:
29%of all incidents
Malicious
code
16%of all incidents
Sustained
probe/scan
Hacking
Use of stolen
credentials
Use of
backdoor or C2
Brute force
Malware Social Error
When it comes to data breaches, Verizon+ notes
that the actors are predominantly external.
Their recent report found the most common
types of breaches are:
RawPOS
Project Hook
Variants
GamaPos
Chery
Picker
Punkey
PoSeidon
- Memory Scraper
- RATs, Backdoors and
other Remote Access
- Downloader/Dropper
- Hacking Tool
- Config File/Dump
File/Data
- Keylogger
- Persistence/
Installer/Cleaner
- Adware/Potentially
Unwanted Programs
- Web Shell
- Rootkit
- Ransomware/Worm
/Exploit
- Bitcoin Miner
Remote Access
Malicious Insider
Misconfiguration
Other
59%
28%
8%
8%
Payment card data
60%
Other
8%
Personally
identifiable
information
4%
Financial credentials
7%
Destroy or damage data
10%
Proprietary information
11%
Intrusions affecting
POS environments^
involved:
$25 - $30
$21 - $25
$20 - $25
$20 - $25
$5 - $8
European Union
Australia
United Kingdom
Canada
United States
Primary types
of data targeted^:
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Data breaches continue to hit the headlines globally. This infographic looks
at how data breaches have evolved over the last year and the threat they
pose to organizations globally.
DATA BREACHES STILL
MAJOR THREAT
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