The United States Department of Justice announced a foreign state-sponsored operation with a botnet meant to disrupt by targeting companies in the media, aerospace, financial, and critical infrastructure sectors. Hackers had compromised computer systems at the ministry’s South Korean’s Ministry of National Defence announced that unknown Some incidents (2019-2020), cyber espionage threat landscape from ENISA Patterns to exploiting third- and fourth-party supply chain partners. Cyber espionage adversaries have slowly shifted their attack Increasingly focus attacks on supplier networks with weak cybersecurity Threat actors motivated by financial, political, or ideological gain will Interference in European political and electoral processes’. Jihadism –, cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns foreign The European continent and fragile states terrorism – and in particular States and its citizens whereas issues that affect the security of EUĬitizens include: armed conflicts immediately to the east and south of It stated that ‘the Union’s strategicĮnvironment has been deteriorating … in order to face the multipleĬhallenges that directly or indirectly affect the security of its Member

Member States to establish a cyber-defence unit and to work together The European Parliament’s Committee of Foreign Affairs called upon Techniques and procedures (TTPs) akin to those of their espionageĬounterparts, groups such as the Cobalt Group, Carbanak and FIN7 haveĪllegedly been targeting large financial institutions and restaurant chains Natural gas (ONG), and manufacturing sectors.Ĭonducted by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups indicate thatįinancial attacks are often motivated by espionage. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are increasing in the utilities, oil and In detail, nation-state-sponsored and other adversary-driven attacks on Targeting the economy increased and it is likely to continue this way. In 2019, the number of nation-state-sponsored cyberattacks That 71% of organisations are treating cyber espionage and other threatsĪs a ‘black box’ and are still learning about them.

InĪ recent report, threat intelligence analysts were not surprised to learn It also mobilises actors from the economy, industry andįoreign intelligence services, as well as actors who work on their behalf. Trade secrets, intellectual property rights and proprietary information in Telecommunication providers, energy companies, hospitals and banks.Ĭyber espionage focuses on driving geopolitics, and on stealing state and In 2019, many reports revealed that global organisations consider cyberĮspionage (or nation-state-sponsored espionage) a growing threatĪffecting industrial sectors, as well as critical and strategic infrastructuresĪcross the world, including government ministries, railways, Gain illicit access to confidential information, typically that held by a It is defined as ‘the use of computer networks to In the cyber espionage threat landscape, ENISA believes that cyber espionage is considered both a threat and a motive in theĬybersecurity playbook.

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