Internet-connected systems are at greatest risk
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:10 am
Removable media remains a significant threat in many of the most frequently attacked countries. Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East show a much higher proportion of infections via removable media than Russia, Europe, and North America. Meanwhile, email attacks, while often effective, are not as common. Perhaps because they target a small group of employees at each firm.
While attacks via removable media and email are lithuania whatsapp data, the largest number of attackers use widespread scanning of internet-facing systems to establish a foothold in a vulnerable network, Kaspersky Lab says. In the first half of 2018, over 27% of attacks came from internet sources, compared to 20.6% in the same period in 2017.
“Contrary to popular belief about the isolation of control networks, in recent years the Internet has become the main source of infection of computers in industrial networks of organizations,” says Kaspersky Lab.
But Digital Bond's Peterson stressed that the attacks seen by security firms are likely to be those targeting smaller firms whose systems are not as well protected as critical infrastructure in Western countries. "What the research does tell us is that there are still a lot of soft victims," he said. "I don't see a lot of high-value critical infrastructure that has Windows servers directly connected to the Internet."
While attacks via removable media and email are lithuania whatsapp data, the largest number of attackers use widespread scanning of internet-facing systems to establish a foothold in a vulnerable network, Kaspersky Lab says. In the first half of 2018, over 27% of attacks came from internet sources, compared to 20.6% in the same period in 2017.
“Contrary to popular belief about the isolation of control networks, in recent years the Internet has become the main source of infection of computers in industrial networks of organizations,” says Kaspersky Lab.
But Digital Bond's Peterson stressed that the attacks seen by security firms are likely to be those targeting smaller firms whose systems are not as well protected as critical infrastructure in Western countries. "What the research does tell us is that there are still a lot of soft victims," he said. "I don't see a lot of high-value critical infrastructure that has Windows servers directly connected to the Internet."