ESET has published its Q2 2020 ESET Threat Report, which summarizes key statistics and key findings from cyber investigationsbetter safetyof 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.
“Τα δεδομένα τηλεμετρίας της ESET έδειξαν μια σταθερή αύξηση του αριθμού των επιθέσεων που σχετίζονται με τον COVID-19 και οι οποίες πραγματοποιήθηκαν μέσω του διαnetworkand via email. The number of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks also increased, with persistent attempts to establish RDP connections more than doubling since the beginning of the year," comments Roman Kováč, Chief Research Officer at ESET.
The Q2 2020 ESET Threat Report examines the most important findings and successes of ESET researchers. For example, the company's researchers studied a ransomware company targeting Android users in Canada under the guise of an official COVID-19 contact detection application. "We immediately stopped this operation in order to offer a decryptor tool to those who had fallen victim to this attack," says Roman Kováč.
ESET researchers also identified the In(ter)ception operation, through which targeted attacks κατά γνωστών εταιρειών του αεροδιαστημικού και του αμυντικού τομέα. Παράλληλα, ξεσκέπασαν τον τρόπο λειτουργίας της οικογένειας κακόβουλου λογισμικού (malware) InvisiMole και μελέτησαν το Ramsay, ένα toolkit κυβερνοκατασκοπείας που στοχεύει σε απομονωμένα δίκτυα (air gapped networks).
Some exclusive research presented in the “Q2 2020 ESET Threat Report” includes malicious Google Chrome extensions that target hardware wallets Wallets) για κρυπτονομίσματα, μια νέα στοχευμένη επίθεση σε πανεπιστήμιο του Χονγκ Κονγκ από κυβερνοεγκληματίες της ομάδας Winnti, as well as other targeted attacks against defense companies in Brazil, the Czech Republic, Qatar, Turkey and Ukraine by the cybercriminals behind Operation In(ter)ception.
In addition to these findings, Q2 2020 ESET Threat Report includes an overview of ESET's contribution to the MITER ATT & CK knowledge base as well as invitations to upcoming ESET conference talks and workshops.
You can read the whole report here ESET Threat Report Q2 2020 (PDF).
