{"id":12583,"date":"2021-02-24T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/02\/24\/detected-cyber-threats-rose-20-to-exceed-62-6-billion-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:05:00","slug":"detected-cyber-threats-rose-20-to-exceed-62-6-billion-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/02\/24\/detected-cyber-threats-rose-20-to-exceed-62-6-billion-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Detected Cyber Threats Rose 20% to Exceed 62.6 Billion in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Trend Micro\u2019s annual roundup report can guide strategic security planning for the new year                            <\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 24 February 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/en_hk\/business.html\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=TYO:4704\"\/>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/us\/about-us\/investor-relations\/index.html\"\/>), a global&#13;<br \/>\nleader in cybersecurity,&#13;<br \/>\ntoday announced it detected 119,000&#13;<br \/>\ncyber threats per minute in 2020 as home workers and infrastructure came under&#13;<br \/>\nnew pressure from attacks. This insight and many others come from Trend&#13;<br \/>\nMicro&#8217;s 2020 roundup report, <i>A Constant State of Flux: Trend Micro 2020&#13;<br \/>\nAnnual Cybersecurity Report.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The report also shows that home networks were a major draw last year for&#13;<br \/>\ncybercriminals looking to pivot to corporate systems, or compromise and conscript&#13;<br \/>\nIoT devices into botnets. Trend Micro found attacks on homes surged 210% to&#13;<br \/>\nreach nearly 2.9 billion&#8211;amounting to 15.5% of all homes. The vast majority&#13;<br \/>\n(73%) of attacks on home networks involved brute forcing logins to gain control&#13;<br \/>\nof a router or smart device.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Email-borne threats made up&#13;<br \/>\n91% of the 62.6 billion threats blocked by Trend Micro last year, indicating&#13;<br \/>\nthat phishing attacks continued to be hugely popular. The company detected&#13;<br \/>\nnearly 14 million unique phishing URLs in 2020 as attackers targeted distracted&#13;<br \/>\nhome workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2020, businesses faced&#13;<br \/>\nunprecedented threat volumes hitting their extended infrastructure, including&#13;<br \/>\nthe networks of home workers. Familiar tactics such as phishing, brute forcing&#13;<br \/>\nand vulnerability exploitation are still favored as the primary means of&#13;<br \/>\ncompromise, which should help when developing defenses,&#8221; said Tony&#13;<br \/>\nLee, Head of Consulting of&#13;<br \/>\nTrend Micro Hong Kong and Macau. &#8220;Global organizations have now had time to&#13;<br \/>\nunderstand the operational and cyber risk impact of the pandemic. The new year&#13;<br \/>\nis a chance to adjust and improve with comprehensive cloud-based security to&#13;<br \/>\nprotect distributed staff and systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Other key trends included:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Newly&#13;<br \/>\ndetected ransomware families increased 34%, with &#8220;double extortion&#8221; attacks &#8211;&#13;<br \/>\nwhere attackers steal data before encrypting it to force payment by threatening&#13;<br \/>\nto release the stolen information &#8212; and more targeted threats becoming&#13;<br \/>\nincreasingly popular. Government, banking, manufacturing and healthcare were&#13;<br \/>\nthe most targeted sectors.<\/li>\n<li>The&#13;<br \/>\nnumber of vulnerabilities published by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) increased&#13;<br \/>\n40% year-on-year, but Trend Micro continues to see flaws from as far back as&#13;<br \/>\n2005 being heavily exploited.<\/li>\n<li>Many&#13;<br \/>\nattacks targeted flaws in VPNs used by remote workers. CVE-2019-11510, a&#13;<br \/>\ncritical arbitrary file disclosure flaw in Pulse Connect Secure, already has&#13;<br \/>\nnearly 800,000 hits based on Trend Micro customer data.<\/li>\n<li>Cloud&#13;<br \/>\nservice misconfigurations increasingly had consequences in 2020. Trend Micro&#13;<br \/>\nobserved exploitation of unsecured APIs in several cryptocurrency mining&#13;<br \/>\nattacks.<\/li>\n<li>The&#13;<br \/>\nZDI published 1,453 vulnerability advisories, nearly 80% of which were rated as&#13;<br \/>\nCritical or High severity.<\/li>\n<li>On&#13;<br \/>\nthe positive front, there was a 17% fall in detections&#13;<br \/>\nof BEC attacks, although there&#8217;s no indication of how many were successful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Read&#13;<br \/>\nthe full report: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/vinfo\/hk\/security\/research-and-analysis\/threat-reports\/roundup\/a-constant-state-of-flux-trend-micro-2020-annual-cybersecurity-report\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\">https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/vinfo\/hk\/security\/research-and-analysis\/threat-reports\/roundup\/a-constant-state-of-flux-trend-micro-2020-annual-cybersecurity-report<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/span>                            <\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/66087#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trend Micro\u2019s annual roundup report can guide strategic security planning for the new year HONG KONG SAR &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 24 February 2021 &#8211; &#13; (;), a global&#13; leader in cybersecurity,&#13; today announced it detected 119,000&#13; cyber threats per minute in 2020 as home workers and infrastructure came under&#13; new pressure from attacks. 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