HP has released its latest global Threat Insights Report, which analyzes cybersecurity attacks and vulnerabilities. Research shows a 65 percent increase in the use of cyberattack tools downloaded from file sharing websites from the second half of 2020 to the first half of 2021. Researchers say cyberattack tools with large circulation have many features. For example, captcha can solve difficulties by using computer vision techniques such as optical character recognition (OCR) to carry out credential-filling attacks against websites. 75 percent of the detected malware was sent by email, while the remaining 25 percent was browsers increased by 24 percent due to users downloading cyberattack tools and cryptocurrency mining software, albeit indirectly.
According to Kaspersky ICS CERT, almost one in three industrial computers were exposed to malicious activity in the first half of 2021.
Kaspersky said cybercriminals used a variety of spyware types and malicious scripts in the first half to carry out their attacks. Such threats grow in the second 6-month period and pose a major challenge for industrial control systems (ICS).
Attacks on industrial enterprises where cybercriminals can steal data and money and disrupt the established manufacturing system pose a particular danger. The increase in the variety of threats to such networks indicates that attackers’ interest in them has increased and as a result, the need to protect them reliably increases.
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