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Ransomware is on the tip of every security professional's tongue right now, and for good reason. It's growing, spreading, and evolving faster than many organizations can keep up with. But just because we may all be targets doesn't mean we have to be victims.
The analysts at Gartner have taken a good, long look at the latest trends in security, with a particular eye toward ransomware, and they had this to say about attacker trends in their report.
Expect attackers to:
“Diversify their targets by pursuing lower-profile targets more frequently, using smaller attacks to avoid attention from well-funded nation states."“Attack critical CPS, particularly when motivated by geopolitical tensions and aligned ransomware actors."“Optimize ransomware delivery by using 'known good' cloud applications, such as enterprise productivity software as a service (SaaS) suites, and using encryption to hide their activities."“Target individual employees, particularly those working remotely using potentially vulnerable remote access services like Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services, or simply bribe employees for access to organizations with a view to launching larger ransomware campaigns."“Exfiltrate data as part of attempts to blackmail companies into paying ransom or risk data breach disclosure, which may result in regulatory fines and limits the benefits of the traditional mitigation method of 'just restore quickly.'"“Combine ransomware with other techniques, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, to force public-fa ..Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
