Retail and finance top the list of vulnerable industries, increasingly targeted with credential threat campaigns

The finance, professional, and information sectors had the highest volume and most variety of malicious activity in Q2 2018, says Rapid7, and the manufacturing sector is steadily getting more and more targeted. According to the statistics from the company’s latest threat report, compiled from alerts validated by its Managed Detection and Response team and data from its Project Sonar (Internet scanning for vulnerable systems) and Project Heisenberg (150+ honeypot nodes watching for signs of attacker activity), there has also been a continued emphasis on credential theft and account leaks across all industries, along with an increase in remote access attempts.

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