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Defending Against People-Focused Attacks in the Modern Threat Landscape

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BharatMalviya
Defending Against People-Focused Attacks in the Modern Threat Landscape

Cyber-criminals have upped their efforts in response to widespread disruption and remote teams, attacking businesses with a variety of threats new and old. Whatever the technique, the majority of attacks had one thing in common: they were all directed against people rather than infrastructure.


Even though the world is already halfway through 2021, the events of 2020 will continue to reverberate in the cybersecurity sector for some time.


Last year, ransomware attacks climbed dramatically, with email still being a prominent point of entry. Meanwhile, credential phishing, another people-focused threat, was the most common type of attack, accounting for the majority of all malicious messages. On the threat landscape, increasingly complex business email compromise (BEC) attacks have evolved.


There were also some new pretenders. Steganography, for example, the technique of disguising malicious payloads in images and audio files, was also very successful.


Let’s take a look at some of the most common forms of people-focused attacks right now and what businesses can do to safeguard themselves.


However, because email is still a significant point of entry, this is still very much an attack on the staff. Today, the email contains first-stage malware that serves as a backdoor for a second payload, which is typically transmitted via virtual private network (VPN) connections and remote desktop protocol (RDP).



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