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2019 Recap: A Year to Remember

McAfee

The talent shortage , coupled with the increasing volume of threats and the changing cybercrime landscape, presents a problem which is only getting worse. As detailed in our August Threat Report , our Advanced Threat Research discovered that new ransomware samples had increased 118% from Q1 to Q2. It’s just math.

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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

Our latest reports focus on the changes the threat actor made to the September and November versions of its backdoor. The threat actor leverages tailor-made malicious documents with embedded macros that trigger an infection chain, opening a URL in Internet Explorer. Final thoughts.

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