Security News > 2022 > August > Disk wiping malware knows no borders

Fortinet announced the latest semiannual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report which revealed that ransomware threat continues to adapt with more variants enabled by Ransomware-as-a-Service.

Destructive threat trends continue to evolve, as evidenced by the spread of wiper malware as part of adversary toolkits.

They are using aggressive execution strategies such as extortion or wiping data as well as focusing on reconnaissance tactics pre-attack to ensure better return on threat investment.

"To combat advanced and sophisticated attacks, organizations need integrated security solutions that can ingest real-time threat intelligence, detect threat patterns, and correlate massive amounts of data to detect anomalies and automatically initiate a coordinated response across hybrid networks."

Services such as a digital risk protection service can be used to do external surface threat assessments, find and remediate security issues, and help gain contextual insights on current and imminent threats.

The war in Ukraine fueled a substantial increase in disk wiping malware among threat actors primarily targeting critical infrastructure.

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