Thus, this report doesn’t only cover direct attacks carried out via the Internet, but also provides an overview of the various types of probes used to collect information prior to the attack. Such probes can be an early indication that a certain server is under attack and can be used to dynamically apply rules which block malicious attempts to gain access before the attacker has the chance to exploit any of the information they might have managed to obtain. These probes are not intrusive by themselves, but are usually followed by a targeted exploit or set of exploits. For instance, many attacks against business users begin with a set of probes to collect information on the various services being made available via the Internet from the company’ servers. Additionally, many reports cover only attacks carried out via the Internet, while paying little attention towards data mining attempts, or “probes”. This is what the Smallpot technology does.
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Such software is designed to collect not only the port number, but the actual data sent during the attack.
Such a fine level of information is only available when special software is used. Although these can provide a good indication of the number of machines could potentially be compromised by a specific piece of malware or used by hackers to launch attacks on the Internet, they do not provide an exact picture of what malware has been used and they are not able to differentiate between the various exploits used by hackers to break into remote systems over the Internet. One important observation is that a lot of the statistics which are made available on the Internet are calculated using reports provided by firewall software, in the form of TCP/IP port numbers which have been blocked. This data has been used not only to create accurate statistics regarding the prevalence of different types of malware and hacker attacks on the Internet, but also to ensure top detection rates for Kaspersky Lab solutions as well as the quickest possible response to new and unknown threats. Since July 2001 Smallpot technology developed by Kaspersky Lab has collected literally millions of probes and attacks. Noting this trend, Kaspersky Lab has been a pioneer in designing and deploying special monitoring tools across the IP space. Over the past few years, security companies have observed a major increase in the number of attacks carried out against corporate and home users via the Internet.
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