Security News > 2021 > May > Shifting Threats in a Changed World: Edge, IoT and Vaccine Fraud

As the world begins to open up and we crawl toward a brighter future, people are going to be looking for things to do and places to go - so we also expect to see social-engineering attacks start using things like travel and vacation deals to hook people.

With many companies continuing to allow at least some of their employees to work remotely with no stipulated end date, security leaders have to stay abreast of the latest threats regarding edge access and browsers.

Attacks don't necessarily have to find vulnerabilities in the browser but just in the backend - how the browser delivers an ad, how it processes things like searches or any other process that gives attackers an opportunity.

Botnets allow attackers to create hundreds of thousands of drones that can attack a wide variety of machines, including Windows systems, Mac systems, Linux, edge devices, IoT devices and more.

Social-engineering attacks and threats related to edge access/browsers/IoT together represent the major ways in which cyberattackers are targeting individuals, as a way of getting into larger organizations.

Using artificial intelligence and automated threat detection can help organizations address attacks immediately, not at some later point, and are needed to mitigate attacks at speed and scale across all edges.

News URL

https://threatpost.com/threats-edge-iot-vaccine-fraud/166029/