Landscape of cyberattacks to change in coming months: Kaspersky report

According to Kaspersky, the top targets for APT were governments, and the most significant threat actor was Lazarus

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With the world rushing onto digital platforms, there are huge challenges of cyber security. The Covid-19 pandemic has created a huge need for everyone – whether they are governments or citizens, businesses as well as consumers – to digitise or move to digital platforms.

While there were many concerns over cyber threats, the inclusion of these new sets of users in the cyber world, who are not digitally trained, is only going to make things concerning security worse in the coming months. According to a recent report on Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) by global cybersecurity solutions providers Kaspersky, the landscape of targeted attacks is going to see significant changes in coming months, along with the attack vectors.

Top 10 Targets

  • Governments
  • Banks
  • Financial Institutions
  • Diplomats
  • Telecommunications
  • Education
  • Defence
  • Energy
  • Military
  • IT Companies

Top 10 Significant Threat Actors

  • Lazarus
  • DeathStalker
  • CactusPete
  • IAmTheKing
  • TransparentTribe
  • StrongPity
  • Sofacy
  • CoughingDown
  • MuddyWater
  • SixLittleMonkeys

Cybersecurity Prediction for India in 2021: Increasing number of cyber frauds

Triggers

  • Growing digital economy
  • Increasing use of digital payment
  • Creation of massive digital infrastructure
  • BharatNet to connect villages with optical fibre

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Source: apt.securelist.com

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First Published: Sun, November 29 2020. 21:34 IST
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