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Mar 2, 2021
Cyberattacks evolved in 2020 as threat actors sought to profit from the unprecedented socioeconomic, business and political challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2020, IBM Security X-Force observed attackers pivoting their attacks to businesses for which global Covid-19 response efforts heavily relied, such as hospitals, medical and pharmaceutical manufacturers, as well as energy companies powering the Covid-19 supply chain.
According to the 2021 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, cyberattacks on healthcare, manufacturing, and energy doubled from the year prior, with threat actors targeting organisations that could not afford downtime due to risks of disrupting medical efforts or critical supply chains.
In fact, manufacturing and energy were the most attacked industries in 2020, second only to the finance and insurance sector. Contributing to this was attackers taking advantage of the nearly 50% increase in vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (I
An FBI alert sent on Tuesday warns companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, poor account passwords, and desktop sharing software TeamViewer.
“Of those 21 arrested – all men aged between 18-38 – nine were detained on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, nine for Fraud offences and three are under investigation for both,” said the agency. Some £41,000 (US$55,000) worth of bitcoin was seized.
In addition, the police visited another 69 people who had bought stolen personal information on WeLeakInfo to warn them against using the data. Many more such personal warnings are due to be dispensed over the coming months, said the agency.
In a way, the operation brings echoes of a global crackdown in 2018 on webstresser.org, the then-largest marketplace for hiring distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and the subsequent public warning by law enforcement for buyers of such services.