This blog was written by a guest blogger.
As companies shift more focus to combatting the recent epidemic in ransomware attacks, they are faced with choices on how to best deploy defenses to counter new attacker tactics and stay ahead of the threat. While much of these efforts focus on system backup and recovery processes, anything that can be done to stop and attacker from gaining an initial foothold on the network (often referred to as an original-entry-point in data breach terminology), substantially reduces the chance of the incident occurring.
While ransomware attackers have traditionally relied on spear phishing emails with malicious attachments and other client-side attacks to gain a network foothold, more advanced ransomware campaigns such as SamSam have continued to adopt a wider variety of skilled attacker tactics including directly probing and exploiting external perimeter services.
The FBI recently highlighted this trend in a public service announcement…
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Posted by: Mike Cotton |
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July 08, 2020 at 09:10PM
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