Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report released Thursday. The 198-page report analyzes the threat landscape of exploits, vulnerabilities, and malware using data for the third and fourth quarters of 2015. North America is one of the least likely to become infected compared to other parts of the world. Exploit kits remained the most commonly encountered type of exploit in the second half of the year, with an encounter rate more than four times that of the next most common type of exploitation, according to Microsoft. The number of attempts to infect PCs with malware is on the rise but the number of times attackers successfully infect are declining.
Source: https://threatpost.com/old-exploits-die-hard-says-microsoft-report/117918/