2020 was a chaotic year that shifted the threat landscape and changed the way many organizations perform business operations. From COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter protests, the US elections and more, threat actors took advantage of newsworthy themes for their phishing lures. Additionally, the supply-chain attack against SolarWinds in Q4 shook the security community to its core as organizations scrambled to determine if they were affected, and government organizations rushed to isolate and patch critical national infrastructure.
Join Josh Smith, Cyber Threat Analyst, Nuspire, and Lea Cure, Cyber Threat Intel Analyst, Recorded Future, for a look at the most significant cyber threats of Q4, a review of threat themes from all of 2020, and tips and techniques on how to combat them. Learn more about key threat topics, including:
- 4176% increase in exploit activity after the announcement that 49,000 Fortinet devices were vulnerable to CVE-2018-13379
- 10,000% increase in ransomware activity – with the threat actor still unknown
- The months with the most malware, botnet and exploit activity
- Remediation best practices to protect your organization