Security News > 2022 > February > BlackBerry report reveals SMBs face increased threat of cyber crime
As the number of ransomware attacks continue to rise, Blackberry has found as a part of its annual threat report that there may be a shared economy amongst cyber criminals that is growing.
"This infrastructure has also incubated a criminal shared economy, with threat groups sharing and outsourcing malware allowing for attacks to happen at scale. In fact, some of the biggest cyber incidents of 2021 look to have been the result of this outsourcing."
Hackers and cyber criminals have honed in on small enterprises as an increased focus of their attacks, as small to medium sized businesses face an average of 11 cyberthreats per day.
In multiple instances Blackberry found these malicious actors were leaving behind text files containing IP addresses suggesting that the authors of the ransomware were not the ones carrying out the attacks, alluding to the shared economy from within the cyber underground.
The report estimates that four million additional cybersecurity experts are needed globally to help mitigate the large number of digital attacks, and one million daily security alerts are seen in 25% of security operations centers.
The possibility posed by Blackberry details an attack taken a step further by cyber criminals, taking advantage of the new COVID-19 tracking technology and making it an attractive target for hackers.