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“The presence of miners, like Tor2Mine, in a network is almost always a harbinger of other, potentially more dangerous intrusions. However, Tor2Mine is much more aggressive than other miners,”said Sean Gallagher, threat researcher at Sophos.

As shown in the SolarWinds breach last year and the Kaseya VSA attack earlier in 2021, supply-chain attacks on MSPs are particularly catastrophic since attackers get access to both their business and their clients.

“The focus of the defenders in the coming year would be on technology and solutions that can detect and derail such attacks before they can cause great harm to the organization,” says Ray Kafity.

In 2022, organisations will continue to face pressures to close their security skills gap and will need to take greater measures to do so.

Emile Abou Saleh, said: “Cybercriminals are on the lookout for festive seasons and high sales period to drive targeted attacks through impersonation and retailers are no exception to this. While the Black Friday and Cyber Monday high sales period is a time to grab the best deals, it could also be a potential target zone for cybercriminals to attack.”

Globally, government organizations are the most popular targets for bad actors, second only to those in the education and research sectors. Of the 93% increase in global cyberattacks reported by Check Point from 2020-21.

Godzilla is a functionality-rich webshell that parses inbound HTTP POST requests, decrypts the data with a secret key, executes decrypted content to carry out additional functionality and returns the result via a HTTP response.

IT professionals continue to identify a lack of clear ownership, resources, and skills as the main issues in installing and managing PKI, according to the 2021 Global PKI and IoT Trends Study.

The X-Force Red team uses Tenable.ad to identify Active Directory misconfigurations and other flaws and provides deployment, configuration, support, and tool management. The team then selects the most dangerous defects based on weaponization.

“We believe that our recognition again as a Leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls is testament to our ability to deliver industry-first innovations, like Secure SD-WAN and ZTNA capabilities,” says John Maddison.