The Latest ‘Blended Threats’

13 November 2009
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Blended threats are spam stealth attacks - moving undetected through your mail servers and blending in with all the other email - until they strike. They can compromise personal or corporate data, "recruit" computers into a network of bots, or initiate keystroke recording that collects passwords and other information.

Blended threats, in particular, have become a popular means of distributing malware. They exploit the “blind spot” in typical signature-based anti-virus products by drawing users to Web sites where malware is downloaded, often without being initiated by the user. All organizations - small and large - need a strategy to deal with these ever changing and increasingly more sophisticated threats.

This white paper, provided by M86 Security, reports on what’s being done to identify and stop the growing problem of Web-based attacks – and why existing security technologies cannot compete against them.