Sophisticated cyber attacks often grabs headlines these days, but with attention focused on advanced persistent threats and mutating malware, it’s easy to overlook older attacks that are still successful. To keep awareness up, the IBM X-Force Threat Research team has a new report on old hacker favorites: “Beware of older cyber attacks.”
An assessment of recent data from IBM Managed Security Services (IBM MSS) reveals some interesting findings about attack vectors that don’t make headlines anymore: “Footprinting and Password Brute Force Attack Patterning.”
Read the research paper from the X-Force MSS Threat Research Group