Its interesting to note that cirminal organizations as they’re known work like legitimate businesses. They’ve got call centers, representitives answering the phone using legitimate toll-free numbers, and they tend to in theory do what a legitimate business would do if a customer (victim) isn’t happy.
The following comes from the Trend Micro research blog which I always enjoy reading but haven’t read it as of late.
The article is titled Ransomware Business Models: Future Pivots and Trends.
The first paragraph of this article states:
RDP port 3389 remains a popular service abused by ransomware actors to gain initial access to systems located and connected to on-premise infrastructure. However, as more organizations shift to the cloud services for file storage and active directory systems, ransomware groups will look for more opportunities to develop and/or exploit vulnerabilities not yet leveraged at scale.
This means that we’ll definitely have to keep our defenses up and guard available to change to the adaptation of this potential.
There are several evolution points that are mentioned in different sections of the article. They include:
- Evolution 1: Change of targeted endpoints – The internet of things (IoT)/Linux
- Evolution 2: Scale up through increased professionalism and automation
While there is a lot of linked content within this article, making it hard for us to really talk about this like I’d like, I’d suggest we read the article as there can be something we can take out of it. Thanks so much for listening and reading.
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