Η ESET δημοσίευσε την Έκθεση Απειλών για το 2ο Τρίμηνο του 2020 “Q2 2020 ESET Threat Report”, στην οποία συνοψίζονται τα βασικά στατιστικά και τα σημαντικότερα ευρήματα από τις έρευνες cyber securityof ESET, as well as new data published for the first time.
According to the Q2 2020 ESET Threat Report, the threats associated with the COVID-19 pandemic defined the cybersecurity landscape in the second quarter of 2020.
“ESET's telemetry data showed a steady increase in the number of COVID-19-related attacks carried out over the internet and via email. At the same time, the number of protocol attacks also increased Remote Desktop (RDP), with persistent attempts to establish RDP connections more than doubling since the beginning of the year,” comments Roman Kováč, ESET Chief Research Officer.
The Q2 2020 ESET Threat Report examines the most important findings and successes of ESET researchers. For example, the firm's researchers studied a ransomware operation targeting Android users in Canada under the guise of an official COVID-19 contact tracing app. “We have immediately suspended this operation in order to offer a decryption tool (decryptor) to those who had fallen victim to this specific attack," says Roman Kováč.
Οι ερευνητές της ESET εντόπισαν, επίσης, την επιχείρηση In(ter)ception, μέσω της οποίας πραγματοποιούνται στοχευμένες επιθέσεις κατά γνωστών εταιρειών του αεροδιαστημικού και του αμυντικού τομέα. Παράλληλα, ξεσκέπασαν τον τρόπο λειτουργίας της οικογένειας malicioussoftware (malware) InvisiMole and studied Ramsay, a cyberespionage toolkit that targets air gapped networks.
Some exclusive research presented in the Q2 2020 ESET Threat Report includes malicious Google Chrome extensions targeting hardware wallets for cryptocurrencies, a new targeted attack on a University of Hong Kong by cybercriminals, and other Win Targeted attacks on defense companies in Brazil, the Czech Republic, Qatar, Turkey and Ukraine by cybercriminals behind Operation In (ter) ception.
In addition to these findings, the “Q2 2020 ESET Threat Report” also includes an overview of ESET's contribution to the MITER ATT & CK knowledge base as well ascalls in upcoming ESET conference talks and workshops.
You can read the whole report here ESET Threat Report Q2 2020 (PDF).
