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Latest Report from Sophos :Threat highlights
Posted On Nov 23, 2020Sophos is releasing its newest study on threats .
Within Sophos, the study encapsulates the work of many teams, including SophosLabs, Cloud Protection, Data Science, and Rapid Response. The daily work of these and other organisations in the company helps protect the clients of Sophos from an ever-increasing range and severity of malfeasance actions targeting their computer systems and data.
The past year has posed obstacles to the world that people have not faced in more than a century. While the internet gave the opportunity to cope better with a global pandemic than was possible in 1918, in 2020 we experienced new complications from ransomware, cryptojackers, and digital fraud targeting any imaginable medium, including security devices.
They've tried to add a bit of order to the chaos of the past year in our threat report (which you can find here). We have organised the report to address the four main areas on which we have concentrated our security efforts in 2020 and which will direct our 2021 planning:
In all its latest ways, the increasingly dire threat of ransomware
Conventional malware for Windows, including methods used by criminals to steal information and distribute malicious payloads
Unconventional malware that targets devices that are not typically thought of as part of the attack surface of an organisation
How the pandemic changed the actions of attackers as much as how we work, play, shop, go to school, and socialise today, and the difficulties involved in protecting those functions.
For example, this was the year that ransomware decided that it wasn't quite evil enough to merely encrypt our data and keep it hostage. Threat actors have noticed that even companies with the strongest backups are still willing to pay big money to keep the world from leaking confidential data, transforming ransomware attacks into a crisis of hybrid hostage-extortion.
It was also a year when the ransomware envelope was moved in another direction by threatening actors: initial ransom demands skyrocketed into millions of dollars per incident, while some perpetrators made it clear that they were willing to compromise with their victims.
Businesses had to devise new ways to provide their employees with safe access to internal computer networks, extending the business perimeter to encapsulate thousands of homes, as office staff went into a work-from-home, lockout mode. And as these remote access features were increasingly deployed by organisations, attackers invented new ways to use them against us, concentrating particular attention on our VPNs and other internet-facing services and devices.
For example, Windows's built-in RDP was not only exploited as an initial point of entry in incidents where we were called in to investigate, but once threat actors established a foothold within the perimeter, they started to take advantage of RDP to manoeuvre within an enterprise laterally.
They seek to identify the root cause of attacks while the Sophos Rapid Response team investigates accidents. The Rapid Response team has also discovered that attackers are increasingly using mundane, traditional common malware to deliver ransomware and other more severe payloads beyond RDP. Any identification can be the precursor to a devastating attack, no matter how banal.
Attackers have made efforts to target attacks on technology not typically considered part of the attack surface: the attention of hackers who leveraged vulnerabilities to instal cryptominers or other malicious code was not evaded by networked IoT computers, firewalls, Linux servers, and Macs. And the attackers who threaten Windows servers and workstations are gradually using our research tools against us using the tools developed by the security industry to investigate or exploit vulnerabilities.
The pandemic took into account everything we did this year in information security, and it sharpened one point: in times of crisis, when processes are under stress all around us, it is important to preserve what still works to retain our ability to survive and succeed. The information security industry and many thousands of professionals, under attack from all directions, set aside rivalry and moved forward to work together as a group to fight back against the darkness.IT services company in Kochi Comtech provides you the best security solutions via Sophos.
As a Gold Partner of Sophos, Comtech Systems can offer you the best and exciting provisions and support.We offers you the best Cyber security services in Kochi.
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