Mandiant Threat Intelligence: Tackling ransomware and cybercrime [Video]

Mandiant Threat Intelligence is playing a crucial role in addressing the rising ransomware threats and evolving cybercrime tactics that are reshaping the global cybersecurity landscape.

Over the past 18 months, attackers have become more sophisticated, targeting vulnerabilities that were once the domain of state-sponsored actors, while expanding their methods and tools in ways that are fundamentally altering how businesses defend themselves. The rise of ransomware, phishing and vulnerabilities being used as a service has created a complex and highly profitable ecosystem for malicious actors, according to Allison Wikoff (pictured), director of global threat intelligence, Americas lead, at PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd.

“The last 18 months have been really interesting — it’s the first time that we took a pause and were like, Oh, actually things are shifting,” Wikoff said. “One of the biggest things that we’ve seen over the last 18 months is the use of vulnerabilities by threat actors. There’s this whole concept of zero-day vulnerabilities, which sounds super scary. It’s not, but traditionally this is …