{"id":8620,"date":"2021-07-16T10:52:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:35:18","slug":"ransomware-attackers-are-getting-more-confident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/ransomware-attackers-are-getting-more-confident\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Attackers Are Getting More Confident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accenture&#8217;s 2021 Cyber Threat Intelligence Report shows that cybercriminals are becoming bolder and more aggressive in targeting manufacturing and other critical infrastructures while testing new methods of extortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the global Ransomware crisis, which is entering a new phase, the threat actors are now using stronger pressure tactics, including these four ransomware techniques, which are the local denial of access; extortion by leak, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), and contact with a victim&#8217;s customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report also found that dark web forums are now becoming a breeding ground for new threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Threat actors also abusing pirated versions of the commercial penetration testing tool called Cobalt Strike.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/ransomware-attackers-are-growing-bolder-and-using-new-extortion-methods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in TechRepublic.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report shows that cybercriminals are becoming bolder and more aggressive in targeting manufacturing and other critical infrastructures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8662,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions\/8662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}