Cyber Security Report: Threat Landscape Gets More Sophisticated | Qualys
Summary: Cisco's 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report forecasts the emergence of "destruction of service" (DeOS) attacks meant to wreck breached IT systems, alongside growing use of hijacked IoT devices in DDoS attacks. The report also cites IC3 figures showing business email compromise netted fraudsters $5.3 billion between October 2013 and December 2016, hitting almost 22,300 U.S. organizations.
What's compelling: Cisco found suspicious log-in attempts in more than 17% of the corporate cloud environments it analyzed between December 2016 and mid-February 2017, and says organizations could strip "super admin" privileges from 75% of admin accounts with little or no business impact.
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