The Symantec report warns that some ransomware gangs are increasingly interested in hitting businesses and that they're using «advance attack techniques, displaying a level of expertise similar to that seen in many
cyber espionage attacks.»
As Nesbitt said, «the next world war will be fought on a keyboard,» and we should expect
cyber espionage attacks to increase in frequency in 2015, McAfee's «2015 Threat Predictions» report warned.
Not exact matches
They are typically used by nation states for
espionage and sabotage, not by
cyber criminals who tend to use widely known bugs for their
attacks.
Last year alone, we defeated 400,000 hostile email
attacks on the government's secure network, which can range from
cyber espionage when perpetrators seek to access our secure systems to snoop for sensitive data, to
attacks designed to undermine or even shut down vital networks.
The
cyber attacks against Estonia resembled more of a
cyber riot by Web users than a singular act of
espionage.
The concern that Huawei's and ZTE's close relationships with the Chinese government poses a potential for
espionage and opens vectors for
cyber attacks that could be avoided by just not using their products.