{"id":8365,"date":"2023-01-05T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.infoblox.com\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2023-01-05T18:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T02:00:54","slug":"infoblox-domain-mitigation-services-optimized-to-combat-emerging-internet-fraud-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/security\/infoblox-domain-mitigation-services-optimized-to-combat-emerging-internet-fraud-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Infoblox Domain Mitigation Services Optimized to Combat Emerging Internet Fraud Incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the COVID era began to play out over the past few years, cybercriminals gleefully embraced ransomware as their preferred malicious attack methodology for monetizing data breaches. How much so? Damages from ransomware alone are expected to exceed $30 billion worldwide in 2023<\/a>. The actual number of individual attacks rose from approximately 300 million in 2020 to well over 600 million in 2021. But while ransomware as a trend was gaining headlines, the underlying hacking techniques that cybercriminals deploy to effectuate the data breaches that make ransomware attacks possible aren\u2019t always as well understood. That needs to change if IT security organizations are to successfully protect the organization, the brand, users, devices and data going forward.<\/p>\n

Consider: according to a recent report from cybersecurity firm Acronis, almost half of all data breaches in 2022 began with stolen credentials. Six hundred malicious email campaigns were launched in the first half of 2022, 58% of which were phishing emails and 28% contained malware. Cybercriminals have shifted toward attacking key entry points on networks that rely on cloud services or seek unpatched or software vulnerabilities to launch attacks. They\u2019re also increasingly relying on techniques and methods including:<\/p>\n