Trend Micro Blocks Over 48 Billion Threats in 2018

guest · Feb 28, 2019

Trend Micro Blocks Over 48 Billion Threats in 2018
February 27, 2019
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/trend-micro-blocks-over-48-billion/

BEC, cryptojacking, phishing and fileless malware attacks all surged in 2018 as cyber-criminals increasingly moved away from one-size-fits-all approaches, according to Trend Micro.

The security vendor’s 2018 roundup report, Caught in the Net: Unraveling the Tangle of Old and New Threats, revealed it blocked over 48.3 billion threats over the 12 month period.
The vast majority of these (41.5 billion) were email borne.

Cryptojacking detections passed the one million mark for the first time, a 237% increase from 2017 figure [...] Fileless techniques showed the biggest rise in detections, up 819% over the year.
Another trend is of cyber-criminals continuing to focus on exploiting known vulnerabilities rather than spending time and money on researching zero days.
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Caught in the Net: Unraveling the Tangle of Old and New Threats (PDF - 2.42 MB): https://documents.trendmicro.com/assets/rpt/rpt-unraveling-the-tangle-of-old-and-new-threats.pdf

itman · Feb 28, 2019

A few other notable points in the report:

Despite the prevalence of ransomware incidents in the news, we observed a drastic 91-percent decrease in ransomware-related threat components.

But recently there were either no widespread zero-day attacks or none that were identified as such. Rather, the ones that were discovered were in the context of attacks with limited scope. At the same time, we observed several cases of cybercriminals using exploits for vulnerabilities that had already been patched. These exploits for known bugs are also known as n-day or 1-day exploits.

Based on smart home network feedback from the Trend Micro™ Smart Home Network solution, which included feedback from third-party routers, the following were the top events (including legitimate connections) and their distribution. The Telnet default password login event reflected the unsecure practice on the part of users of not changing the passwords provided by the vendors.
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Also with 80% of detected malware arriving via e-mail, that is where one's security protection concerns need to be directed. Also patch, patch, and patch some more.

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