A new cybercrime report from Malwarebytes showed total business threat detections are trending upward by 55%, while consumer detections increased by only 4% quarter over quarter.
In the company’s eighth edition of the report, “Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques Q3 2018,” Malwarebytes investigated the statistics, trends and observations over the past three months specifically. After describing the first two quarters as sleepy, researchers found attacks in the third quarter were targeting businesses in full force through exploit kits, ransomware, and banking Trojans alike. With the rise in attacks on businesses versus consumers, Malwarebytes said threat actors seem to have realized that “business targets are returning more value for their efforts.”
The cybercrime report also stated that ransomware and banking Trojans have learned much harder into their business targets this quarter. Even malware that’s generally favored consumers, such as cryptominers and adware, seems to have graduated to a more professional prey.
source: searchsecurity.techtarget.com
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