Politically motivated cyber-espionage groups also hard at work between July and September, according to Trend Micro.
Although Trend Micro has seen a decline in the number of threats since 2012 — trending nearly 20 percent down — point-of-sale attacks are increasing.
One reason for the general decline in threats is that over the years most threat actors have begun to prefer targeted attacks over the “shotgun approach” of blasting malware at anyone and everyone, according to the researchers.
