Adversaries Don t Vacation
Organizations will naturally look toward the holiday season as an opportunity for employees to regroup and recharge. But defenders should be proactively working to harden their defenses to ensure that any operational downtime doesn t become an open door for threats. Both state-sponsored and e-crime actors have remained highly active through the second half of 2020.
Fig. 2. OverWatch observed intrusion campaigns increasing throughout 2019 and into 2020. Source: CrowdStrike
Opportunistic e-crime actors have found 2020 to be a particularly lucrative year. It is continuing to make gains on state-sponsored activity; e-crime now comprises 82% of all intrusions uncovered by OverWatch (where it was possible to make attribution to a high degree of confidence). One particularly disappointing development from e-crime threat actors has been the widespread ransomware attacks against the healthcare industry, resulting in potentially serious delays in patient care. Th