400 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, says Symantec. Political activism and hacking were two big themes in 2011 themes that are continuing into 2012. The proportion of phishing emails varied considerably by company size with the smallest and largest companies attracting the most. India was the number one source of all activities, except for malicious code and spam zombies, where India took first place. Many companies are keen to adopt cloud computing. It can reduce costs by outsourcing routine services. The first risk is unmanaged employee use of cloud services.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/10/400-million-new-variants-of-malware.html