McAfree releases "Threats Report: Second Quarter 2013"

A recent blog post by McAfee, a computer software company and subsidiary of Intel Corporation, introduced readers to the McAfee Labs cyberthreat report for the second quarter of 2013.  McAfee Threats Report: Second Quarter 2013 was prepared by McAfee Lab's personnel Toralv Dirro, Paula Greve, Haifei Li, François Paget, Vadim Pogulievsky, Craig Schmugar, Jimmy Shah, Ryan Sherstobitoff, Dan Sommer, Bing Sun, Adam Wosotowsky, and Chong Xu. According to the Report's introduction

McAfee Labs researchers have analyzed the threats of the second quarter of 2013. Several trends are familiar: steady growth in mobile and overall malware. A cyberespionage attack against South Korea and a further increase in worldwide spam are further attention grabbers
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Publicly reported data breaches have averaged a relatively flat line for the past three quarters. Outsiders steal data more often than insiders, but this is one threat area in which our data comes from victims, who may not feel like exposing all of their weaknesses. MySQL still leads enterprise databases in the number of reported vulnerabilities.

As detailed in McAfee's blog post, written by Robert Siliciano, the Report found four major areas in which the cybercriminal community is executing its attacks: (1) "Malicious apps on Android-based mobile devices," (2) "Infecting websites to distribute malware" (3) "Holding your devices hostage with ransomware" and (4) "Sending spam promoting fake pharmaceutical drug offers." Both the blog post and the Report provide for a very interesting take on the current state of cybercrime.