{"id":31411,"date":"2019-03-14T03:47:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T07:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=31411"},"modified":"2019-03-14T03:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T07:47:52","slug":"ransomware-is-so-2017-modern-cybercriminals-are-all-about-cryptojacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/14\/ransomware-is-so-2017-modern-cybercriminals-are-all-about-cryptojacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Is So 2017: Modern Cybercriminals Are All About Cryptojacking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is someone at IBM a big comic book fan? The name \u201cX-Force\u201d is popularly associated with a superhero team<\/a> from Marvel Comics, but IBM has chosen it as a moniker for many of the company\u2019s digital security offerings, such as its penetration testing service, X-Force Red<\/a>, or its X-Force IRIS<\/a> incident response team. Mysterious branding decisions aside, last week IBM released the 2019 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index<\/a>, a summary of the changing trends in cyberattacks, derived from analyzing trillions of individual security events from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These events range from a simple probing\u00a0port scan<\/a>\u00a0to sophisticated malware attacks. Together, they show a changing trend in attackers\u2019 methods over the course of 2018, driven by their desire to get the most bang for their buck\u2014literally. Even though intrusions\u00a0by\u00a0state actors<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0hacktivists<\/a>\u00a0get a lot of attention, most attacks are carried out by criminals simply looking to make money as easily as possible. Read more:<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is someone at IBM a big comic book fan? The name \u201cX-Force\u201d is popularly associated with a superhero team from Marvel Comics, but IBM has chosen it as a moniker for many of the company\u2019s digital security offerings, such as its penetration …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[663,636],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-31411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptojacking","category-ransomware","tag-ransomware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46525,"url":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/08\/senate-passes-major-cybersecurity-legislation-to-force-reporting-of-cyberattacks\/","url_meta":{"origin":31411,"position":0},"title":"Senate passes major cybersecurity legislation to force reporting of cyberattacks","author":"Rick Backus","date":"March 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By\u00a0Geneva Sands - The Senate on Tuesday passed major cybersecurity legation, moving one step closer toward forcing critical infrastructure companies to report cyberattacks and ransomware payments. 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