{"id":17492,"date":"2021-09-15T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/09\/15\/attacks-surge-in-1h-2021-as-trend-micro-blocks-41-billion-cyber-threats\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T03:30:00","slug":"attacks-surge-in-1h-2021-as-trend-micro-blocks-41-billion-cyber-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/09\/15\/attacks-surge-in-1h-2021-as-trend-micro-blocks-41-billion-cyber-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacks Surge in 1H 2021 as Trend Micro Blocks 41 Billion Cyber Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 15 September 2021 &#8211; Global cybersecurity leader&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/\">Trend Micro Incorporated<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=TYO:4704\">TYO:&#13;<br \/>\n4704<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/us\/about-us\/investor-relations\/index.html\"> TSE: 4704<\/a>) announced today that it&#13;<br \/>\nblocked 40.9 billion email threats, malicious files, and malicious URLs for&#13;<br \/>\ncustomers in the first half of 2021, a 47% year-on-year increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>To&#13;<br \/>\nread the full report &#8220;<i>Attacks from All Angles: 2021 Midyear Security Roundup&#8221;<\/i>:&#13;<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/vinfo\/hk\/security\/research-and-analysis\/threat-reports\/roundup\/attacks-from-all-angles-2021-midyear-security-roundup\">https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/vinfo\/hk\/security\/research-and-analysis\/threat-reports\/roundup\/attacks-from-all-angles-2021-midyear-security-roundup<\/a>\u00a0<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware&#13;<br \/>\nremained the standout threat in the first half of the year as cyber criminals&#13;<br \/>\ncontinued to target big-name victims. Working with third parties to gain access&#13;<br \/>\nto targeted networks, they used Advanced Persistent Threat tools and techniques&#13;<br \/>\nto steal and encrypt victims&#8217; data.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nbanking industry was disproportionately affected, experiencing a 1,318%&#13;<br \/>\nyear-on-year increase in ransomware attacks in the first half of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware&#13;<br \/>\nwas a major threat to global organizations in the first half of 2021, but it&#13;<br \/>\nwas not the only one. Trend Micro&#8217;s report also reveals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business email compromise&#13;<br \/>\n(BEC) attacks increased by 4%, potentially as a result of new COVID-19&#13;<br \/>\nopportunities for threat actors.<\/li>\n<li>Cryptocurrency miners&#13;<br \/>\nbecame the most detected malware, having surged ahead of WannaCry and web&#13;<br \/>\nshells in recent months.<\/li>\n<li>The Zero Day Initiative&#13;<br \/>\ndetected 770 vulnerabilities, a slight (2%) drop from 1H 2020.<\/li>\n<li>A total of 164 malicious&#13;<br \/>\napps related to COVID-19 scams were detected, 54% of which impersonated TikTok.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The&#13;<br \/>\nfirst step towards effectively mitigating cyber risk is understanding the&#13;<br \/>\nscale, complexity, and specific characteristics of the threat landscape,&#8221; said Tony&#13;<br \/>\nLee, Head of Consulting at Trend Micro Hong Kong and Macau. &#8220;In addition to&#13;<br \/>\ncomprehensive protection against fast-evolving threats like ransomware,&#13;<br \/>\nphishing and BEC that Trend Micro offers, our biannual roundup reports provide&#13;<br \/>\nglobal organizations and stakeholders invaluable insights to help them build a&#13;<br \/>\nmore secure connected world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report&#8217;s overall&#13;<br \/>\nfindings highlight the effectiveness of \u2013\u00a0and increasing need for \u2013 a&#13;<br \/>\nholistic and scalable cybersecurity solution at the enterprise level. As&#13;<br \/>\nthreats continue to increase in frequency and sophistication, enterprise SOC&#13;<br \/>\nteams will require a platform that can streamline security processes without&#13;<br \/>\nsacrificing reliability.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-09-15\/94801\/attacks-surge-in-1h-2021-as-trend-micro-blocks-41-billion-cyber-threats\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 15 September 2021 &#8211; Global cybersecurity leader&#13; Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO:&#13; 4704; TSE: 4704) announced today that it&#13; blocked 40.9 billion email threats, malicious files, and malicious URLs for&#13; customers in the first half of 2021, a 47% year-on-year increase. \u00a0 To&#13; read the full report &#8220;Attacks from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}