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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," said Microsoft manager Alex Weinert, although attacks do
not always succeed.
About half of all attacks originate in Asia and one-fifth in
Latin America.
Millions occur each year when the attacker has valid
credentials, Microsoft said, meaning the attacker knows a user’s
login and password. A technology known as machine learning can
often detect those attacks by looking for data points such as
whether the location of the user is familiar.
On average, 240 days elapse between a security breach in a
computer system and detection of that breach, said Tim Rains,
director of security at Microsoft. The study, Microsoft Security
Intelligence report, comes out Thursday.
(Reporting by Sarah McBride; Editing by David Gregorio)
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