2017 Annual Security Roundup. The Paradox of Cyberthreats (report from trendmicro.com)

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As environments become progressively interconnected, threats become increasingly complicated. The top security events of the past year make this apparent — and their repercussions make the implementation of smart protections all the more important.

March 20, 2018

The past year saw massive ransomware outbreaks turn into global events that reportedly cost enterprises billions of dollars. We also saw familiar threats like business email compromise (BEC) continue to be a consistent danger for enterprises. Meanwhile, volatile cryptocurrencies disrupted the threat landscape as their value steeply and quickly rose. To function in this environment, cybercriminals reworked old techniques to take advantage of the crypto-trends and also tried to exploit known vulnerabilities in new ways.
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The number of new ransomware families rose 32 percent from 2016 to 327, showing that there were still active ransomware developers trying to take advantage of a plateauing trend. However, the ransomware-related threats detected by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ security infrastructure went in the opposite direction and dipped 41 percent. Apparently, only a select few of these new families actually made an impact in 2017.
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