cyber trends
PROOFPOINT HAS GATHERED ITS
TOP PREDICTIONS FOR INDUSTRY
EXPERTS TO WATCH OUT FOR THIS
YEAR. EMILE ABOU SALEH, REGIONAL
DIRECTOR, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA AT
PROOFPOINT, TELLS US DOWNLOADERS
AND BOTNETS ABOUND WHILE SUPPLY
CHAINS AND ACCOUNT COMPROMISES
WILL DRIVE PHISHING.
D
uring 2019,
there were many
trends within the
threat landscape
that help paint a
picture of what
we can expect
to unravel this year. These include
the results of widespread RAT and
downloader distribution, significant
evolution in impostor attacks and
increasingly sophisticated attacks on
cloud applications.
Notably, email will remain the initial
threat vector of choice for most
actors, driving credential phishing
campaigns; targeted attacks with
malware to establish a beachhead
within organisations; and for widespread
distribution of banking Trojans,
downloaders, backdoors and more.
However, cloud-based email systems
like Microsoft Office 365 and GSuite will
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Proofpoint’s
security
predictions
in the
Middle East
themselves also be key targets for threat
actors, providing platforms for future
attacks and lateral movement within
targeted organisations. with this, Proofpoint gathered the below
top predictions for CIOs to watch out for:
As cybercriminals are increasingly
shifting their focus from targeting
infrastructure to targeting people, in
2020 it is vital that organisations in the
Middle East, as well as across the globe,
recognise the human factor threat as any
organisation, regardless of its geography,
is a target of those threat actors. Aligned Despite its near absence as a primary
payload in malicious emails, ransomware
continued to make headlines throughout
2019, largely in so-called ‘big game
hunting attacks.’
Ransomware
We expect these types of attacks
– in which threat actors focus on
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