WithSecure’s recent webinar discussed how organizations like panelist Jack Fowler’s Harris Federation could change their security posture in light of new trends in cyber crime. These trends showed how changes in the threat landscape have had a knock-on effect on the threat actor ecosystem.
In short: consequences of the collapse of Conti Group and other factors have included:
- An increase in pay-to-play threat groups using tools provided by third parties,
- The rapid spread of Conti tools, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and,
- The advent or rise to prominence of a number of groups that have either used tooling developed by other groups or have inducted or been built with the help of former Conti members or other threat actors