Mandiant Introduces Trending Evil Quarterly Report Series, Empowering Organizations to Strengthen Security Programs
February 24 2022 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Trending Evil Q1 2022 report highlights the
lasting impact of Log4Shell and prevalence of financially motivated
attacks
Mandiant, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNDT), the leader in dynamic cyber
defense and response, today announced the launch of Trending Evil,
a new quarterly report series that offers an inside look at the
most recent threats observed by Mandiant Managed Defense.
Delivered as an online, interactive experience, each Trending
Evil report features the most impactful threat observed during the
reporting period, as well as insight on the most prevalent threat
actors, malware families, common target industries and tactics,
techniques and procedures (TTPs). Additionally, to help
organizations strengthen their security posture, every report
provides defensive actions organizations can take to keep IT
environments safe against the most prevalent threats.
Inaugural Trending Evil Report Findings
Now available, the Trending Evil Q1 2022 report1 highlights the
end of an active year in cyber and the lasting impact of Log4Shell
vulnerability.
Key Highlights
- Mandiant Managed Defense continues to track and help protect
customers against 30 attack campaigns exploiting the Log4j
vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), including activity from suspected
China- and Iran-sponsored state-nexus threat clusters.
- During this period, Managed Defense detected 11 different
malware families used to exploit the Log4Shell vulnerability.
- In addition to exploits against Log4Shell, Managed Defense
observed numerous financially motivated attacks that delivered
malicious payloads via fake web pages or email phishing
campaigns.
- Phishing campaigns conducted by a financially motivated threat
group Mandiant tracks as UNC2500 reveals changing TTPs. However,
Managed Defense observed the outcomes of compromise remain the
same: ransomware, exfiltration and extortion.
- Managed Defense observed activity from APT41, a Chinese
state-sponsored espionage group that also conducts financially
motivated activity for personal gain.
- The report highlights five trending malware families observed
impacting industries across tech, government, education, finance,
healthcare and real estate.
“Mandiant Managed Defense sits uniquely in the center of the
Mandiant consulting group and the Mandiant Advantage SaaS platform
serving as both a contributor and consumer of Mandiant’s renowned
threat intelligence and frontline expertise,” said Dave
Baumgartner, EVP, Security, Technology and Managed Solutions at
Mandiant. “Last year, Managed Defense was responsible for finding
and mitigating two prominent zero-day vulnerabilities. Distributing
our insight in an easily consumable way through the Trending Evil
report series is a natural next step in our mission to provide
organizations of all sizes with visibility into the latest threats,
helping them stay ahead with their security programs.”
Mandiant Managed Defense is a managed detection and response
service that works as a seamless extension of security teams. The
service delivers around the clock monitoring and event triage,
continuous threat hunting to uncover hidden adversaries and rapid
response and remediation to resolve incidents before they impact
the organization. In fact, Managed Defense reduced the average
5-day dwell time for ransomware to less than 24 hours with no
business impact.
More insights from the Trending Evil Q1 2022 report can be found
here: http://experience.mandiant.com/read-trending-evil
For more information on Mandiant Managed Defense visit,
https://www.mandiant.com/advantage/managed-defense
1 The Mandiant Trending Evil Q1 2022 report reveals evil
observed by Managed Defense between the dates of October 1 and
December 31, 2021.
About Mandiant, Inc.
Since 2004, Mandiant has been a trusted partner to
security-conscious organizations. Effective security is based on
the right combination of expertise, intelligence, and adaptive
technology, and the Mandiant Advantage SaaS platform scales decades
of frontline experience and industry-leading threat intelligence to
deliver a range of dynamic cyber defense solutions. Mandiant’s
approach helps organizations develop more effective and efficient
cyber security programs and instills confidence in their readiness
to defend against and respond to cyber threats.
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