Security News > 2020 > October > Exploring the prolific threats influencing the cyber landscape

Some of the world's most skilled nation-state cyber adversaries and notorious ransomware gangs are deploying an arsenal of new open-sourced tools, actively exploiting corporate email systems and using online extortion to scare victims into paying ransoms, according to a report from Accenture.

The report examines the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by some of the most sophisticated cyber adversaries and explores how cyber incidents could evolve over the next year.

"Since COVID-19 radically shifted the way we work and live, we've seen a wide range of cyber adversaries changing their tactics to take advantage of new vulnerabilities," said Josh Ray, who leads Accenture Security's cyber defense practice globally.

Throughout 2020, CTI analysts have observed suspected state-sponsored and organized criminal groups using a combination of off-the-shelf tooling - including "Living off the land" tools, shared hosting infrastructure and publicly developed exploit code - and open source penetration testing tools at unprecedented scale to carry out cyberattacks and hide their tracks.

The criminals behind the Maze, Sodinokibi and DoppelPaymer ransomware strains are the pioneers of this growing tactic, which is delivering bigger profits and resulting in a wave of copycat actors and new ransomware peddlers.

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