ORGANISATIONS NEED TO ADOPT A MULTI-LAYERED CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY THAT PREVENTS THESE ATTACKS FROM TAKING HOLD OF THEIR NETWORKS AND DATA .
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cloud infrastructures to exploit its computational power and multiply profits for threat actors
• Multi-platform attacks on the rise – Up until the end of 2017 , multi-platform malware was rare . However , the rise in the number of consumer connected devices and the growing market share of non-Windows operating systems has led to an increase in cross-platform malware . Campaign operators implement various techniques in order to take control over the campaigns ’ different infected platforms
• Mobile malware spread via the supply chain – In the first half of this year , there have been several incidences where mobile malware that has not been downloaded from a malicious URL but instead arrived already installed within the device . In addition , there was an increase in applications readily available on app stores that were actually malware under disguise , including banking trojans , adware and sophisticated remote access trojans ( RATs )
Check Point ’ s ThreatCloud intelligence is the largest collaborative network to fight cybercrime and it delivers threat data and attack trends from a global network of threat sensors .
The ThreatCloud database holds over 250 million addresses analysed for bot discovery , more than 11 million malware signatures and over 5.5 million infected websites and identifies millions of malware types daily . •
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ORGANISATIONS NEED TO ADOPT A MULTI-LAYERED CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY THAT PREVENTS THESE ATTACKS FROM TAKING HOLD OF THEIR NETWORKS AND DATA .
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