Fortinet announced the latest semiannual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report which revealed that ransomware threat continues to adapt with more variants enabled by Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS).
Additional highlights of the report:
- Work-from-anywhere (WFA) endpoints remain targets for cyber adversaries to gain access to corporate networks.
- Operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) environments are both attractive targets as cyber adversaries search for opportunities in the growing attack surface and IT/OT convergence.
- Destructive threat trends continue to evolve, as evidenced by the spread of wiper malware as part of adversary toolkits.
- Cyber adversaries are embracing more reconnaissance and defense evasion techniques to increase precision and destructive weaponization across the cyber-attack chain.
Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist & VP Global Threat Intelligence at Fortinet, said: “Cyber adversaries are advancing their playbooks to thwart defense and scale their criminal affiliate networks. They are using aggressive execution strategies such as extortion or wiping data as well as focusing on reconnaissance tactics pre-attack to ensure better return on threat investment.
“To combat advanced and sophisticated attacks, organizations need integrated security solutions that can ingest real-time threat intelligence, detect threat patterns, and correlate massive amounts of data to detect anomalies and automatically initiate a coordinated response across hybrid networks.”
Ransomware threat growth and new variants show evolution of crime ecosystems
