Cybersecurity
To get a sense of just how nation-state
attackers are upping their game now, consider this: nearly 80% of phishing
emails used in attacks investigated by incident response firm Mandiant last
year used IT and security-related topics, or impersonation of those departments
or antivirus vendors in order to lure their victims into opening malware-laden
attachments and links.
That's a 34% increase since 2013, says Ryan
Kazanciyan, technical director at Mandiant, a FireEye company, which today
published its annual M-Trends Report on investigations it conducted on behalf
of breached businesses in 2014. "That's a fairly significant jump. This is
one of those things with the visibility you have that represents the totality
of what's out there," he says of how nation-states are now crafting their
phishes.
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