Relevant Threat Trends
Ransomware Financial impact (2015)
> $24 Million
Shell Attacks
Denial of services
Sim Swapping
Malware & Pishing
Nation State Actor
Hactivist
Internal Threat
Sim Swapping
Account impersonation and takeover fraud whereby the 2nd step (voice call/SMS) as part of two factor authentication is redirected to malicious actor’s SIM, is on the rise.
Denial of service
Public facing servers can be maliciously overload target systems with simultaneous request with the intent to shut it down or make it in accessible.
Cyber Criminal
Account impersonation and takeover fraud whereby the 2nd step (voice call/SMS) as part of two factor authentication is redirected to malicious actor’s SIM, is on the rise.
Malware & Pishing
The most prevalent methods adopted due to it’s stealth nature and ease of deployment which comes embedded with embedded malwares for execution once this bait is clicked.
Hactivist
Malicious scripts enable threat actors compromise servers for future/additional attacks via backdoors.
National State Actor
Public facing servers can be maliciously overload target systems with simultaneous request with the intent to shut it down or make it in accessible.
Shell Attack
Malicious scripts enable threat actors compromise servers for future/additional attacks via backdoors.
Internal Threat
The most prevalent methods adopted due to it’s stealth nature and ease of deployment which comes embedded with embedded malwares for execution once this bait is clicked.