Cybersecurity threatscape 2019

guest · Jun 13, 2019

Cybersecurity threatscape: Q1 2019
https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/cybersecurity-threatscape-2019-q1/

Positive Technologies keeps monitoring the most important IT security threats. Experts all over the world are working to combat cybercriminals, fueling an arms race in which hackers continue to refine their tools. In early 2019, companies in a wide range of industries suffered from cyberattacks.
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Cybersecurity threatscape Q1 2019 (PDF - 1.00 MB): https://www.ptsecurity.com/upload/corporate/ww-en/analytics/Cybersecurity-threatscape-2019-Q1-eng.pdf

Blog entry: Positive Technologies cybersecurity report shows сryptolocker infection rate growing to 24 percent of all attacks

Positive Technologies’ researchers have summarized cybersecurity trends of first quarter 2019 in a new report entitled CyberThreatscape Q1. The main trends include a significant rise of infection via cryptolockers; an increase in the number of unique threats; a large number of new hybrid Trojans; an increase in the number of attacks aiming at data theft; and a decrease in cryptojacking.

Finally some good news: the number of attacks aimed at covert mining of cryptocurrency has decreased due to its increasing complexity, which has made it less and less profitable. A year ago, at the beginning of 2018, the share of miners rose as high as 23 percent, yet in the fourth quarter fell to only 9 percent. In first quarter 2019, the share of cryptojacking was only 7.
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guest · Aug 28, 2019

Cybersecurity threatscape: Q2 2019
August 28, 2019
https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/cybersecurity-threatscape-2019-q2/

Personal data and credentials are the most frequent item of interest for attackers targeting organizations. This is no surprise, since companies can keep huge databases of clients' personal data and credentials. In addition, attackers may be interested in the credentials of the employees of the victim company.
Social media accounts can also be of value to an attacker, especially if an account is highly popular with a large number of subscribers.

In Q2 2019, the share of targeted attacks climbed significantly compared to the previous quarter (59% in Q2 vs. 47% in Q1). The share of cyberincidents targeting individuals was 24 percent. Among organizations (see Figure 3), the most frequent targets were governments, industrial companies, healthcare institutions, banks, and other financial entities. In Q2 we saw supply chain attacks on major IT companies with clients in a variety of sectors, meriting a closer look in our discussion of IT attacks.
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Cybersecurity threatscape Q2 2019 (PDF - 2.62 MB): https://www.ptsecurity.com/upload/corporate/ww-en/analytics/Cybersecurity-threatscape-2019-Q2-eng.pdf

guest · Dec 2, 2019

Cybersecurity threatscape: Q3 2019
https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/cybersecurity-threatscape-2019-q3/

In Q3, data theft was the motivation for 61 percent of attacks on organizations and 64 percent of attacks on individuals (compared to 58% and 55%, respectively, in Q2). Direct financial gain, at 31 percent, was equally popular as motivation for attacks against both organizations and individuals. Attackers seeking direct financial gain from organizations generally use ransomware to demand a ransom for decrypting the victim's data. Against individuals, such direct gain tends to involve intrusive advertising and mobile apps with subscriptions to paid services.
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Cybersecurity threatscape Q3 2019 (PDF - 7.92 MB): https://www.ptsecurity.com/upload/corporate/ww-en/analytics/cybersecurity-threatscape-2019-q3-eng.pdf

Blog entry: Positive Technologies: cyberattacks are becoming increasingly targeted in nature

The experts at Positive Technologies have released their cybersecurity threatscape findings for the third quarter of 2019. The main trends highlighted in the report include an increase in the number of unique cyber incidents, a large amount of activity by APT groups engaged in targeted attacks, and a two-to-one greater incidence of data theft in comparison to direct financial gain as an attack motive.
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guest · Mar 20, 2020

Cybersecurity threatscape: Q4 2019
https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/cybersecurity-threatscape-2019-q4/

In the last quarter of 2019 the percentage of attacks aimed at data theft and attacks for direct financial gain remained practically the same as in the previous quarter.

In the last quarter of 2019, payment card information made up a third (32%) of all information stolen from organizations. This is several times more than in the previous quarter (7%). This was to be expected. On the one hand, people make a lot of online purchases in the run-up to the winter holidays. On the other hand, this jump is related to the rapidly growing number of MageCart attacks on thousands of online stores, combined with a second wave of attacks on the Click2Gov service used by many Americans to pay their utility bills.

The percentage of attacks on individuals fell almost by half versus the previous quarter, and is now only 10 percent of all attacks.
The list of the top five target industries remains stable: government, industry, healthcare, finance, and education.
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Cybersecurity threatscape Q4 2019 (PDF - 4.02 MB): https://www.ptsecurity.com/upload/corporate/ww-en/analytics/cybersecurity-threatscape-2019-q4-eng.pdf

Blog entry: Positive Technologies experts: ransomware operators threaten to disclose stolen data unless the victims pay

Positive Technologies cybersecurity experts have summarized their findings of the last quarter of 2019 in the report Cybersecurity Threatscape Q4. They found that the number of cyber attacks increased by 12 percent in comparison to the previous quarter, and that payment card information comprised almost a third (32 percent) of all data stolen from organizations. The report indicates that the number of targeted attacks increased by two percentage points versus the previous quarter, and now makes up 67 percent of all attacks.
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guest · Apr 3, 2020

Targeted attacks now 60 per cent of incidents: Vendor report
April 2, 2020
https://channeldailynews.com/news/targeted-attacks-now-60-per-cent-of-incidents-vendor-report/70556

For years spam has been one of the biggest worries of CISOs. However, targeted attacks through spear-phishing and other techniques are increasingly the leading vector, according to security vendor Positive Technologies.
In a look at 2019 trends released Thursday, the Russian-based company said 60 per cent of attacks it looked at were targeted. That was a five per cent rise over 2018. One of the reasons is an increase in APT attacks, the report said.

“The increase in targeted attacks is due to several reasons,” Alexey Novikov, director of Positive Technologies’ Expert Security Center (PT ESC), said in a statement.
“Every year we see new groups of attackers specializing in advanced persistent threats. During 2019, the PT ESC tracked APT attacks by 27 groups, ranging from well-known groups, such as Cobalt, Silence, and APT28, to relatively unknown newcomers.
The vendor believes that companies should shift their attention from preventing of attacks in the perimeter to timely detection and response inside the network, regularly checking any previous attacks.
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Cybersecurity Threatscape 2019 (PDF - 5.57 MB): https://www.ptsecurity.com/upload/corporate/ww-en/analytics/cybersecurity-threatscape-2019-eng.pdf

Blog entry: Positive Technologies: 60 percent of 2019 attacks were targeted

Positive Technologies experts have analysed the 2019 cybersecurity threat landscape. The analysis shows that the percentage of targeted attacks is much greater than that of mass attacks, and that the top target sectors were government, industry, healthcare, science and education, and finance.
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