Governments, firms at risk of cyber attacks from various nation-states

[Audrey McNeil <audrey () riskbasedsecurity com>]

http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20131211/NEWS07/131219962?tags=|299|305|302|303

Governments and private firms are at risk of cyber attacks from multiple
nation-states, says European Union's cyber security agency in a report
issued Wednesday.

“It has become clear that maturity in cyber activities is not a matter of a
handful of nation-states,” says the Herkalion, Greece-based European
Network and Information Security Agency, in its report, “ENISA threat
Landscape 2013, Overview of current and emerging cyber-threats.”

“Rather, multiple nation-states have now developed capabilities that can be
used to infiltrate all kinds of targets — both government and private ones
— in order to achieve their objectives.”

The report states this year “has clearly unveiled the true dimension behind
the potential of this threat agent group.”

“Main targets of this threat group are state secrets, military secrets and
data on intelligence as well as threatening the availability of critical
infrastructures. Acting with a high level of capabilities, the
methods/vectors of launched attacks vary significantly.

“Yet, high-effort and high-sophistication targeted attacks belong to the
main attack methods used. The degree of successfulness of performed attacks
can be considered as rather high.”

The report says “Threat agents have increased sophistication of their
attacks and their tools.”

Furthermore, cyber threats can now be mobile, says the report. “Attack
patterns and tools that targeted (personal computers) a few years ago, have
been migrated to the mobile ecosystem.”

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