In Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit(TM) research team 2012 Threatscape Review there is an intresting senario about Distributed denial-of-service attacks that has been successful in draining up to $2.1 million from a bank account. The Dell SecureWorks 2012 Threatscape Review analyzes the conditions in 2012 that create threat scenarios and discusses notable trends in software vulnerabilities, global-scale threats, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Advanced Persistent Threats, and mobile threats.