GEC NEWS WIREDigital Shadows released its Shooting the Messenger: Understanding the Threats to the Media and Broadcasting Industry report which revealed that revenue generating websites are a threat to media businesses’ bottom line and are increasing with malvertising, extortion, propaganda, account take over and data leakage being the most common attacks targeted towards media and broadcast organizations.
The Digital Shadows report further revealed that the insecurity surrounding Internet of Things devices, such as Wi-Fi-enabled cameras, surveillance systems, lighting, and even fridges, is presenting cybercriminals and hacktivists with more opportunities to target media and broadcast organizations. The report further revealed that as the media and broadcasting industry are increasingly conducting more business online as a growing demand from customers, there are projections of revenue increases of $100 billion by 2020 but the threat of having their websites forced offline and becoming unavailable to customers represents a serious business risk.
“Attacks can either be opportunistic in nature, whereby a threat actor will target an organization having discovered a particular software vulnerability on a public-facing site, or more targeted as the organization may hold particularly sensitive or lucrative information that can be used for a variety of malicious uses. Broadcasting services represent potentially worthwhile targets as they often hold extensive personal details about their customers, such as names, dates of birth, physical addresses and payment information,” said Chris Brown, VP EMEA, Digital Shadows.
