Security News > 2021 > December > What the Rise in Cyber-Recon Means for Your Security Strategy

Cybercriminals understand spending more time in pre-attack reconnaissance means a greater chance of success when they launch their attack campaigns.

In many situations, they can reuse the same techniques in their recon phase against multiple organizations, so although they're putting more effort upfront, they increase their chance of success and make their attacks more modular.

Not only will more vulnerabilities be discovered, but the attacks that exploit them will become more readily available to other attackers and incorporated into other attack kits.

They're using left-side attacks to make the right-side attacks more effective.

It also means more frequent attacks, sometimes accompanied by DDoS hits to overwhelm IT security teams.

Organizations today need an intelligent, holistic and scalable security strategy to defeat these advanced attack types.

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https://threatpost.com/rise-cyber-recon-security-strategy/177317/