Ransomware is still criminals' malware of choice, human resourcedepartments have become bigger targets for data breaches, and thefinancial services sector has its own set of vulnerabilities on topof all that, according to Verizon's 2018 Data Breach InvestigationsReport released this week.
The 68-page study reported that 39% of malware-related data breaches involved ransomware — a ratetwice that of last year's report — and accounted for more than 700incidents. Criminals also showed more interest in entering whatVerizon called “business critical” systems by encrypting fileservers and databases so they can demand bigger ransoms.
Criminals going after employees
HR departments are especially attractive targets to criminalstrying to steal employee wage and tax data, according to theVerizon report.
“The incidents targeting human resources staff do have aconfidentiality loss associated with them. The data most oftencoveted in these incidents is the W-2 information of employees —loaded with salary and other personal information that can be usedto file fraudulent tax returns on their behalf and directlydepositing any refunds to the attackers' account,” it reported.
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