Mounting zero-day vulnerabilities, more sophisticated living-off-the-land attack techniques, and escalating extortion levels were noted by Mandiant executives to be among the most pressing cybersecurity concerns faced by chief information security officers, CyberScoop reports. “The aggressiveness by which cyber criminals are operating, particularly groups that we’ve been tracking recently, are making a CISO’s job really, in some cases, a nightmare that they have to live through because they don’t just have to think about stolen data — they have to think about the well-being of the people that work for them as well,”

Source: SC Magazine