Written by Rick McElroy
Hackers are escalating their use of 'island hopping', targeting less secure third-party suppliers to infiltrate larger organisations' networks and wreak havoc.
64% of incident response professionals had experienced attackers launching secondary command and control after an initial attack was shut down.
Sandboxing was big, but I believe that in two years sandboxing won't be an effective control, because the bad guys understand it.
We can be sure that attackers will leverage that delta in patching. Communication and router security has been ignored for too long.
Remember, don't be embarrassed about falling victim. The more we talk about how these things happen the better we will be.
Mobile devices & smart TVs controlled by cyber criminals make scary headlines. There's something scarier – the possibility that routers can be owned.
