Summary:
According to the cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which operates on an international level, governments, the military, telecommunications, and judicial systems are most often attacked globally.
Details:
In the second quarter of 2024, Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) published a report that developed the trends of cyber threats. Some hackers simply remained active as before while others are now heavily equipped and have widened their sphere of activities – this was revealed by the report.
The data by Kaspersky reveal a rather sharp rise in the incidence of more mature cyber spying initiatives. Another significant observation is that such attacks have targeted mainly governments, military, telecommunications, and judiciary most of which makes these areas the world’s most susceptible to attacks.
This quarter, a major event was a cyberattack on XZ, an open-source compression utility in Linux systems. The attackers were able to misrepresent themselves and gain long-term access to the development environment of the software. Moreover, hacktivism which is partially motivated by geopolitical concerns became one of the key components of the threat activity in the current quarter. But not all the attacks that occurred were related; to some of the conflict areas.
Kaspersky’s report also emphasizes that the attacks were not isolated in a particular geographic area, but they occurred nearly all over the world which includes Europe Asia Americas Middle East,, and Africa. This was an indication that cyber threats are universal and are present worldwide.
David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky’s GReAT, speaking of these new and emerging threats, underlined the necessity of extended teamwork and cooperation. He pointed out that it would be possible to protect the digital world from such threats only through cooperation and information sharing.
The complete report on the cyber threat landscape in Q2 2024 is available at Securelist. com. Therefore, articles by Kaspersky’s GReAT team are periodically published through the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal (TIP).