Nine out of ten malware attacks occur via secured connections
A new Internet Security Report from Watch Guard for the second quarter indicates a huge increase in malware, network and ransomware attacks.
The security researchers of the Watch Guard Threat Lab found outthat 91.5 percent of all malware in the second quarter of 2021 was sent over encrypted HTTPS connections. In addition, the California-based security software vendors have seen a huge increase in malware, network and ransomware attacks.
Conversely, this means that any organization not using an HTTPS inspection solution is allowing nine out of ten attacks to pass unnoticed. In addition to an increase in network attacks, malware detections originating from scripting engines such as Power Shell have already accounted for 80 percent of the total attack volume in the last six months.
Ransomware still in high trend
Ransomware detections were down from 2018 to 2020, but with a year-over-year increase rate of 150 percent, are returning to "with all my might" back. Further Watch Guard observes a Rise of remote access Trojans, which very likely refers to the Home Office Increase is attributable to.
Still trending high are a number of Office threats. A highly dangerous vulnerability known as CVE-2021-40444 made headlines in early September when attacks against Microsoft Office and Office 365 on Windows 10 machines were increasingly exploited.
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