Security News > 2020 > September > Ransomware attacks continue to dominate the threat landscape
2020-09-01 17:47
Ransomware attacks often rely on trojans to infect computers and steal information.
As ransomware continues to dominate as a cyberthreat, criminals are increasingly carrying out attacks using Cobalt Strike, an otherwise ethical testing framework.
Ransomware attacks are now relying less on commodity trojans such as Emotet and Trickbot and more on Cobalt Strike, a powerful toolkit designed for threat emulation and penetration testing.
Last quarter, 66% of all ransomware attacks involved Cobalt Strike, the report said.
An attacker hit a tech company's server running Telerik UI. The cybercriminal was able to open a command prompt to run malicious commands that resulted in a ransomware attack.
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