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CYBER ATTACK TRENDS:
2019 MID-YEAR REPORT
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INTRODUCTION
The first half of 2019 demonstrated
that no environment is immune to
cyber attacks. We have witnessed
threat actors developing new tool sets
and techniques, targeting corporate
assets stored on cloud infrastructure,
individuals’ mobile devices, trusted third-
party suppliers’ application and even
popular mail platforms.
One of the dominating ongoing trends
in 2019 is targeted ransomware attacks.
This year collaborations between threat
actors allowed even more destructive
attacks that paralyzed numerous
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organizations worldwide. What ends with
a ransomware attack usually starts with
a more silent sequence of bot infections.
Still highly visible, cryptominers are
on the decline this year – only 21% of
organizations worldwide were affected
by cryptominers’ attacks in comparison
to 42% during its peak in 2018. This was
the outcome after shutting down the
‘CoinHive’ drive-by mining service.
Software supply chain attacks attracted
public and government attention. In such
attacks threat actors inject malicious
code into components of legitimate
applications, victimizing a large number
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of unsuspecting users. The accumulation
of several cases since the beginning of
the year led the American government to
devote special attention to this evolving
threat and will soon publish official
recommendations on ways to minimize
the impact of such attacks. u
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