iTWire Thursday, 08 April 2021 22:19 New Bitdefender report reveals top global cyberthreats
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The new report outlines how ransomware, malicious spam, mobile malware and other threats to consumers evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bitdefender. It s a global cybersecurity company protecting hundreds of millions of endpoints and systems worldwide, and like other security companies, releases regular reports.
Its latest report is the 2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report , revealing the top cybersecurity threats, the frequency of threats and the cybercrime trends of 2020.
Bogdan Botezatu, director of threat research and reporting at Bitdefender said: Our 2020 findings depict consumers under constant assault from cybercriminals looking to capitalise on fear and societal uncertainty accompanying the global pandemic.
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Android smartphones from Gigaset have been infected by malware direct from the manufacturer in what appears to be a supply-chain attack.
The Trojan, once downloaded and installed on a victim s device via a poisoned software update from the vendor, is capable of opening browser windows, fetching more malicious apps, and sending people text messages to further spread the malware, say researchers and users.
The malicious updates were seeded on April 1, judging by reports out of Germany.
Our pals at Heise also reported the wave of infections, whose perpetrators had not been identified at the time of writing. Heise observed this morning: Permanent removal usually fails, meaning it s difficult to remove the persistent software nasty, adding that Gigaset s quality assurance department had confirmed that the company s update server has delivered the
Ransomware attacks and threats to IoT devices soar in 2020
Ransomware attacks grew by 485 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. Attacks in the first and second quarters accounting for 64 percent of all attacks or 19 percent higher than the first two quarters of 2019.
This is one of the findings of the latest Consumer Threat Landscape report from Bitdefender. which also shows that IoT devices with proprietary operating systems were responsible for 96 percent of vulnerabilities even though they account for only 34 percent of consumer devices.
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New Report Outlines How Ransomware, Malicious Spam, Mobile Malware and Other Threats to Consumers Evolved During the COVID-19 Pandemic
BUCHAREST, Romania and SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity company protecting hundreds of millions of endpoints and systems worldwide, today released the 2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report, revealing top cybersecurity threats, frequency of threats and cybercrime trends of 2020. Our 2020 findings depict consumers under constant assault from cybercriminals looking to capitalize on fear and societal uncertainty accompanying the global pandemic, said Bogdan Botezatu, director of threat research and reporting at Bitdefender. Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to use outlier events and human empathy to line their pockets. As the pandemic continues we are constantly seeing