Security News > 2022 > March > Expanding threat landscape: Cybercriminals attacking from all sides

A research from Trend Micro warns of spiraling risk to digital infrastructure and remote workers as threat actors increase their rate of attack on organizations and individuals.

"Attackers are always working to increase their victim count and profit, whether through quantity or effectiveness of attacks," said Jon Clay, VP of threat intelligence at Trend Micro.

"Our latest research shows that while Trend Micro threat detections rose 42% year-on-year in 2021 to over 94 billion, they shrank in some areas as attacks became more precisely targeted."

Ransomware attackers are shifting their focus to critical businesses and industries more likely to pay, and double extortion tactics ensure that they are able to profit.

Ransomware-as-a-service offerings have opened the market to attackers with limited technical knowledge - but also given rise to more specialization, such as initial access brokers who are now an essential part of the cybercrime supply chain.

Business email compromise saw detections drop 11%. However, Trend Micro blocked a higher percentage of advanced BEC emails, which could be detected only by comparing the writing style of the attacker with that of the intended sender.

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