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BlackBerry researchers see more double-extortion ransomware attacks, attackers demanding ransom from healthcare patients, and rising bitcoin prices driving the growth of ransomware.
Chinese-language APTs are targeting telecom companies in cyberespionage campaigns aimed at stealing sensitive data and trade secrets tied to 5G technology, according to researchers. "While the initial vector for the infection is not entirely clear. [We believe] with a medium level of confidence that victims were lured to a domain under control [a] the threat actor, from which they were infected with malware," according to McAfee researchers in a Tuesday report.
A quick shift toward Microsoft Office 365 and Azure AD in the cloud has expanded the attack surface for many organizations, says Vectra AI. The coronavirus pandemic has forced many organizations to transition their applications and other assets to the cloud. This increased reliance on Office 365 has naturally caught the eye of cybercriminals who have been ramping up their attacks against Microsoft's cloud-based Office environment for many customers.
Ransomware has emerged as one of the most pernicious security threats to organizations and one that has proved to be lucrative for the criminals who practice it. Ransomware operators are getting savvier and more daring, leading to increasingly costly incidents for compromised organizations.
As working environments evolved, so did the methods of threat actors and other motivated perpetrators, as detailed in the SonicWall report. "The pandemic - along with remote work, a charged political climate, record prices of cryptocurrency, and threat actors weaponizing cloud storage and tools - drove the effectiveness and volume of cyberattacks to new highs. This latest threat intelligence offers a look at how cybercriminals shifted and refined their tactics, painting a picture of what they are doing amid the uncertain future that lies ahead.".
FireEye unveiled two new insider threat security services from Mandiant. The new services help organizations establish or scale up insider threat programs and are designed to provide ongoing protection against rapidly evolving and dynamic malicious activities within organizations.
Isolating your hardware and your applications is a more effective way to prevent malware from infecting your critical endpoints, says HP. Defending your organization against malware used to a matter of running the right antivirus software to detect and block any security threats. The HP-Bromium Threat Insights Report looks at malware observed during the fourth quarter of 2020.
Most notably, 29% of respondents experienced increased security threats and 30% of businesses admitting to not having enough mobile devices to offer to their remote workers. Seven out of ten employees admit to using personal devices for work - either exclusively or alongside a work device - with 18% noting that they haven't felt confident in the security of their device for the last 12 months.
A new report from Forrester is giving enterprises a path forward out of the pandemic with a serious security warning: There are five major problems, and five attack vectors, which could slow post-pandemic progress in 2021. The five greatest threats to businesses in 2021 will be different from those in 2020, but Forrester is predicting the attack vectors used by cybercriminals to be similar to those from last year.
The addition of DFLabs to the Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform will provide customers of varying sizes and maturities with comprehensive cloud-native security intelligence solutions built for today's digital businesses that leverage modern applications, architectures and multi-cloud infrastructures. "Security in the modern world is moving from a human-scale problem to a machine-scale problem," said Greg Martin, Vice President and General Manager of Sumo Logic Security Business Unit.