Security News > 2020 > February > IBM X-Force Threat Index finds Google, Apple, Amazon are most often spoofed
The X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2020 found that hackers are targeting manufacturing plants, making banking trojans more sophisticated, and spoofing tech brands to make phishing schemes successful.
IBM Security releases the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index annually, summarizing the most prominent threats identified by research teams.
Most attacks used a combination of known vulnerabilities within SCADA and ICS hardware components, as well as password-spraying attacks using brute force login tactics.
IBM X-Force research teams analyze data from hundreds of millions of protected endpoints and servers and data from spam sensors and honeynets.
IBM Security Research also runs spam traps around the world and monitors tens of millions of spam and phishing attacks daily.