WASHINGTON – Pakistan, Indonesia, the Palestinian territories, Bangladesh, and Nepal attract the highest rates of attempted malware attacks, according to a Microsoft Corporation report.
Countries that attracted the fewest include Japan, Finland, Norway and Sweden, Microsoft said in a new study, based on sensors in systems running Microsoft anti-malware software.
“We look at north of 10 million attacks on identities every day, although attacks do not always succeed. About half of all attacks instigate in Asia and one-fifth in Latin America.Millions occur each year when the attacker has valid credentials,”Alex Weinert, a manager with the technology giant said.
A technology known as machine learning can often detect those attacks by looking for data points such as if the location of the user is familiar;on average, an elapse of 240 days between a security breach in a computer system and detection of that breach, said Tim Rains, director of security at Microsoft.
The report, titled Microsoft Security Intelligence, comes out Thursday.
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