Security News > 2020 > October > Remember insider threat? Old news now. Focus on malware detection, says EU infosec agency

Insider threats, ransomware and cyber espionage were all in decline in the early part of 2020, according to the EU's cybersecurity agency - though the risk of an "Uncontrolled cyber arms race" among nation states is growing.

The EU Agency for Cybersecurity said in its annual report issued today that those three categories of cyber threat were in decline up until April this year when COVID-19-related lockdowns began.

The agency still warned of the "Continuous increasing trend in the advanced adversary capabilities of threat actors," adding: "Remarkably, the latter has come to amplify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in cyberspace."

Over on the business-facing side of ENISA's report, the agency reckoned there was nothing new in the types of threats facing commercial enterprises: business email compromise, malware and business process compromise.

Of most relevance to infosec professionals was a relatively passionate call for more threat intelligence focused on "Service-provisioning infrastructures and offerings", though it cited examples of these as including 5G, ICS and SCADA systems - the first of which is hardly ignored by the wider infosec industry, although it is very fair to say that ICS and SCADA systems remain woefully insecure.

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