Our security experts provide you with a forecast of the most important malware trends and attack methods on email communications in 2021. With a special focus on the German-speaking region and its specific circumstances, we regularly evaluate extensive data sources and continuously analyze the current threat situation.
At the turn of the year 2019/2020, the time had come: 32Guards began to send assessments of emails to the participants of the 32Guards beta. Over the course of 2020, the repertoire of detections grew significantly. In this article, we will look back at a number of developments and show how 32Guards became increasingly active, especially in the second half of 2020.
In a joint operation, law enforcement agencies from Germany, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Lithuania, France, as well as England, Canada and the United States have smashed the infrastructure of the Emotet malware. Emotet was previously considered the most dangerous malware in the world and in the vast majority of cases was used to extort ransom from victims.
In his analyses, 32Guards has repeatedly noticed short URL services in a particularly negative light in recent months. These URL shorteners generate an alternative, short URL that can be used on Twitter, for example. In this way, the number of characters used in a post can be reduced. The fact that the use of these services can cause problems is, of course, already due to the fact that the actual target of the URL is not recognizable – virtually an invitation to phishers and other cybercriminals.
The coronavirus is still an integral part of our everyday life. Contrary to the hopes of many people the threat situation will be existent after 2020. Financial hardship as well as restrictions on our everyday life, from the obligation to wear masks to the ban on accomodation to the death of cultural life will also shape the year 2021.
The current threat situation is shaped by the trojan Emotet. A striking feature of cyber attacks is that the attack patterns vary rapidly. This makes it difficult to specifically detect Emotet threats at all levels.
The trend towards cloud-based IT services is unbroken. But not only that: entire solutions or IT infrastructures are no longerpremises but have migrated to the cloud. The field of email security is also undergoing radical change, with the result that some providers in Email Security sectorhave already announced that they will no longer offer on-premises solutions at all in the foreseeable future and will switch completely to cloud offerings.
In recent days, the security experts at NoSpamProxy have recorded a significant increase in the number of phishing attacks using the well-known URL shredder service bit.ly. Here the attackers use the well-known pattern of “hello spam”.
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