{"id":117,"date":"2023-09-03T00:42:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2023-09-07T05:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T05:02:44","slug":"threat-trends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/?page_id=117","title":{"rendered":"Threat Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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↖ Industry Background<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Threat Modeling ↗<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Social Engineering & Sector Culture<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Behavioral techniques are used to trick people to provide sensitive information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022According to IBM\u2019s 2019 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, 29% of attacks involved phishing emails. The primary targets are accounts of senior banking members (SwivelSecure). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022These phishing attacks are the #1 attack in the banking sector as once inside attackers can use APT to harvest personal\/financial data (Naz).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Exploited Vulnerabilities <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Increase in hybrid workforce and cloud based have increased network vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 As per Mimecast, 56% of infected systems are due to the inability to patch \u201czero-day\u201d threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Positive Technologies, a company that has a commercial stake in securing web apps, found that banking institutions were \u201cthe most vulnerable\u201d to getting hacked as of 2018. (Whittaker)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Ransomware<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Data encrypted by attackers has become more frequent and a major headache to most companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Sophos 2023 report, 64% of institutions reported being hit by ransomware vs 36% across all sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerningly only 14% of the encryption attacks were stopped prior to having data encrypted.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Threat Modeling ↗<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

↖ Industry Background Threat Modeling ↗ Social Engineering & Sector Culture Behavioral techniques are used to trick people to provide sensitive information. \u2022According to IBM\u2019s 2019 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, 29% of attacks involved phishing emails. The primary targets are accounts of senior banking members (SwivelSecure).  \u2022These phishing attacks are the #1 attack in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/186"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/improdango.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}