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QUARTERLY THREAT
LANDSCAPE REPORT
Q
Q1 2019 Introduction
and Overview
It’s time once again to head back
out into the wilds of the cyber threat
landscape to review another quarter of
mischief and mayhem.
Thank you for choosing us as your
guide, and we look forward to spending
the next dozen-ish pages helping to get
you caught up on important Q1 events
and prepared for the future. Here’s a
quick synopsis of the attractions we’ll
visit this quarter:
The Fortinet Threat Landscape Index.
This summary measure of how bad it
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is out there was more volatile than
ever, but rose a slight 1% overall during
the quarter.
Tools and Tricks for Living Off the
Land. Threat actors increasingly
leverage legitimate tools already
installed on target systems to carry out
cyberattacks. We discuss several of
these tools and how they’re being used.
Attackers Thinking More About
ThinkPHP. Exploits targeting the
ThinkPHP framework hit the #2 spot,
reminding us that attackers don’t
discriminate against lesser-known
technologies to accomplish their goals
on a global scale.
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Coinhive Becomes Victim of Its
Own “Success”. The Monero-based
cryptomining service Coinhive, which
became a favorite of cyber criminals,
shut down in Q1. We study the effects
of that move through the lens of our
telemetry data.
Read the full list in the whitepaper.
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