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TRENDING
MCAFEE REPORT UNCOVERS
RANSOMWARE RESURGENCE
AND EVOLUTION OF
CYBERTHREATS
As cybercriminals continue to act and cyberattacks
continue to increase, it is important to shine a light on
the threat activity and the trends it creates. McAfee
experts discuss the severe impacts of these attacks and
how to recognise those trends.
M
cAfee, the device-to-cloud
cybersecurity company, has
released its McAfee Labs
Threats Report: August 2019, examining
cybercriminal activity and the evolution of
cyberthreats in Q1 2019.
McAfee Labs saw an average of 504 new
threats per minute in Q1 and a resurgence
of ransomware along with changes in
campaign execution and code. More
than 2.2 billion stolen account credentials
were made available on the cybercriminal
underground over the course of the quarter.
Sixty-eight percent of targeted attacks
utilised spearphishing for initial access, while
77% relied upon user actions for campaign
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execution. “The impact of these threats is
very real,” said Raj Samani, McAfee fellow
and Chief Scientist. “It’s important to
recognise that the numbers, highlighting
increases or decreases of certain types of
attacks, only tell a fraction of the story. Every
infection is another business dealing with
outages or a consumer facing major fraud.
We must not forget for every cyberattack,
there is a human cost.”
Each quarter, McAfee assesses the state
of the cyberthreat landscape based on
in-depth research, investigative analysis
and threat data gathered by the McAfee
Global Threat Intelligence cloud from over a
billion sensors across multiple threat vectors
around the world.
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WE MUST
NOT FORGET
FOR EVERY
CYBERATTACK,
THERE IS A
HUMAN COST.
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