Security experts discovered a 1,500%+ upsurge attacks towards VPN due to remote work

A leading managed security services provider (MSSP), Nuspire, has announced its 2021 Q1 Threat Landscape Report release. The report includes techniques and procedures (TTPs) with additional insight from its threat intelligence partner, Recorded Future, and new cybercriminal activity and tactics sourced from 90 billion traffic logs.

Nuspire had a 1,527% increase in Pulse Connect Secure VPN and a 1,916% increase in attacks against Fortinet's SSL-VPN in Q1 2021. Various vulnerabilities happen to allow a threat actor to get access to a network. They exfiltrate information and install ransomware once they are in.

Due to the increase in RDP and VPN vulnerabilities, threat reports of Nuspire find out botnet, malware, and suspicious activities are down compared to Q4. But still, threat actors are on the prowl. Other significant findings included in Nuspire's 2021 Q1 Threat Landscape Report are:


• Emotet botnet activity dropped -99.96% after the announcement of Law Enforcement seizing their infrastructure.
• ZeroAccess Botnet activity rushed during one week by 619,460% before trailing down into the end of the quarter.
• SMB Login Brute Force efforts contained 69.73% of all exploit activity witnessed in Q1.


About Nuspire

Nuspire, a security services provider (MSSP), is revolutionizing cybersecurity involvement by taking a hopeful and people-first approach. Nuspire offers complete services that syndicate award-winning threat recognition with more excellent response competencies to deliver end-to-end security across the gateway, network, and endpoint ecosystem. Our customer base spans thousands of enterprises of all sizes across numerous businesses and realizes the extreme risk reduction per cyber-dollar spent. At Nuspire, we are laser-focused on bringing a fantastic cybersecurity experience that surpasses the expectations of the clients.