11 Takeaways From the Symantec Cybersecurity Report

5. Financial Services is the Top Target for Malicious Activity

In evaluating which critical infrastructure sectors were most often targeted, the study found that Financial Services accounted for 55.9 percent of attacks. They discovered this by looking for malicious activities that occurred within government and critical infrastructure computers, which include bot-infected computers, phishing hosts, spam zombies, and network attack origins.