Annual review regarding vulnerabilities and attacks for 2018

Date : March 14, 2019

The aim of this review is to highlight the general tendencies and threat evolution to help the community to enhance their protections.

In this report, Cert-IST analyzed the main events of 2018:

  • Could GDPR be THE solution to the numerous data leaks?
  • Spectre and Meltdown: time to apply firmware patches
  • New attacks targeting banks
  • Governments became the most visible actors in the threat landscape
  • Attacks through the suppliers or partners
  • Attackers' TTPs are evolving making attributions even more difficult.
  • A year of Cryptominers mania

This document is available on Cert-IST public website:

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