Default installations of Linux are, the report said, "becoming harder to compromise" thanks to changes such as fewer services automatically enabled and host based firewalls filtering inbound connections.
More important, however, is that hackers are now using tactics to target users, not the systems they work on. The best example is the flood of phishing attacks cranked out by criminals this year that need nothing more than an enticing e-mail message, an easily-duped consumer, and a bogus Web site to haul in dollars and steal identities.
The group also admitted the obvious, that Linux, by virtue of its small slice of the market, is a much less appealing target than Windows. "Based purely on economies of scale, attackers are targeting Win32 systems and their users, as this demographic represents the largest percentage of the installed base," the report stated.
"[You'd] expect that a greater threat could exist to Windows than Linux," the group concluded.
And from the results of this honeypot experiment, you'd be right.
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