How to Protect Your Business from Evolving Cybersecurity Threats

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Sergey Stelmakh | 06/25/2019
The information security sector is waging a never-ending war against cybercriminals. The main challenge it faces is the constantly changing attack vectors and tactics: as soon as information security specialists have learned to prevent or cope with the consequences of threats, new ones appear, experts interviewed by ZDNet note.

In 2017, ransomware was the most common threat to businesses, while last year hackers refocused on distributing cryptomining malware. Thus, over the past two years, criminals have expanded their malware arsenal, which includes time-tested mechanics of distributing Trojans, phishing, and hacking attacks, with two new methods of illegal enrichment egypt mobile database have become a real scourge for organizations around the world. As for this year, one of the main trends is that hacker attacks have become more targeted. If in the past they were associated with the participation of states, which carried out them with the help of intelligence agencies, now cybercriminals have taken up this type of attack.

“Criminals are gradually shifting the paradigm of striking from the maximum number of targets to pinpoint targets. Some hacker groups are quite selective in their attacks, trying to pinpoint demographics and other metrics that will help narrow the attack vector,” says Assaf Daan, head of threat intelligence at Cybereason. The first reason that led to the change in tactics is the thirst for profit. In the case of stealing really valuable data (industrial espionage, corporate secrets, financial transactions) or taking over target systems with ransomware, hackers will receive much more profit than with massive attacks on the general population.