Group-IB has presented its annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report. The report examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year. The most severe financial damage has occurred as a result of ransomware activity. Ransomware operators buy access and then encrypt devices on the network. After receiving the ransom from the victim, they pay a fixed rate to their partners under the affiliate program. The main ways to access to corporate networks include brute-force attacks on remote access interfaces (RDP, VPN, VPN). downloaders of botnets (ebrbrute-force botnets)”]
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