BlackBerry Cylance: Latest report reveals global attack surface expansion

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BlackBerry Cylance: Latest report reveals global attack surface expansion
February 21, 2020
https://securitybrief.co.nz/story/b...eport-reveals-global-attack-surface-expansion

The continued evolution of nation-state backed threat actor groups and the increased availability of sophisticated attack toolsets were amongst the key findings in the latest BlackBerry 2020 Threat Report.

The report also details more select threats focused on targets like embedded technologies in connected vehicles, manufacturing and mobile devices, and those taking advantage of misconfigurations in cloud computing deployments.

"New techniques to obscure malicious payloads and distribute attacks across multiple organisations paid off for threat actors in 2019," says Eric Cornelius, chief technology officer at BlackBerry Cylance.
Automotive and Retail Industries Should Brace for More Threats
For example, BlackBerry Cylance researchers discovered new backdoors being deployed by APT group OceanLotus (APT 32) in a 2019 campaign targeting multinational automotive manufacturers. As more vehicles become connected and the attention given to potential outcomes of cyberattacks on vehicles increases attacks against this sector are anticipated to grow.
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Additional Key Findings in the 2020 Annual Threat Report

Coinmining attacks become more commonplace as cryptocurrency prevails: Criminals recognized an opportunity to passively generate revenue by infecting cryptocurrency machines.

MSSPs are becoming high-value targets for threat actors: New ransomware called Sodinokibi caused mass disruption by infiltrating hosted environments.

Continued evolution of ransomware tactics: An increased availability of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) offerings, and instances where ransomware developers have collaborated with banking trojan developers to exfiltrate data prior to encryption, are being used to further extort victims.

Increased use of host-encrypted malware: Static analysis of host-encrypted malware is almost impossible in a lab, decreasing defenders' understanding of the malicious code and the ability for security solutions to block it.

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BlackBerry Cylance 2020 Threat Report

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