Bad guys use common techniques to steal data, while companies focus too much on sophisticated attacks, according to the second annual Hacker’s Playbook, based on an analysis of nearly 4 million breach methods.
Security professionals are figuring out how to block attacks from state-sponsored, advanced, persistent adversaries, said Itzik Kotler, CTO and co-founder at penetration company SafeBreach, which produced the report.
“But if you look at the different hacks, they’re not all carried out by nation-states,” he said. “They’re carried out by script kiddies and cyber criminals.”
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