Cybercriminals are Increasingly Turning to Ransomware as a Secondary Source of Income
Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to ransomware as a secondary source of income, says a new FireEye report. The Mandiant M-Trends 2020 Report adds that cyber attacks are evolving – 41 percent of the malware families FireEye Mandiant observed in 2019 were new.
In the 2020 M-Trends report, the global median dwell time, defined as the duration between the start of a cyber intrusion and it being identified, was 56 days. This is 28-percent lower than the 78-day median observed in the previous year. FireEye Mandiant consultants attribute this trend to organizations improving their detection programs, as well as changes in attacker behaviors such as the continued rise in disruptive attacks (e.g. ransomware and cryptocurrency miners) which often have shorter dwell times than other attack types.