siliconindia | | June 20178M any people envision cyber criminals as lone operators, working in solitude to hack into the systems of unsuspecting victims and turn a personal profit. While that's sometimes the case, cyber-crime typically operates more like an underground marketplace, with criminals exchanging everything from malware to ideas and advice. As with any marketplace, trends begin to emerge. Cyber criminals learn from each other, collaborate and invent new ways to improve efficiencies, leading to an uptick in certain tactics or particular breeds of malware. Cybersecurity teams are then able to track these trends and develop solutions and best practices to avoid falling victim to them. Cyber criminals and security teams are locked in a cyber arms race of sorts, each gaining ground in some areas while experiencing setbacks in others. In the SonicWall Annual Threat Report 2017, researchers in the SonicWall Capture Lab identified the top trends shaping the landscape of cybersecurity today. As the report points out, understanding the trends is the first step to reversing them.Cyber Crime TrendsRansomware attacks have grown by 167x year-over-year, leading up to the recent global WannaCry attack. Ransomware is nothing new, but it has certainly gained favor in the cybercriminal community over the past year. On May 12 of this year, the Wan-naCry ransomware attack quickly became the most famous ransom-ware attack to date, thanks to how IN MY OPINIONKEY NETWORK SECURITY TRENDS TO LOOK-OUT FOR IN By Scott McCrady, VP ­ APJ Sales & Global Strategic Partnering, SonicWALLHeadquartered in California, SonicWALL is a network security solutions company specialized in offering Firewall, application intelligence and control, and many other network security solutions to SMBs and enterprises worldwide.
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