A Year in Review: Threat Landscape for 2020

McAfee Labs' 2020 review outlines a significant rise in COVID-19 themed phishing and malicious URLs, a ransomware boom enabled by exposed RDP and weak credentials (notably Netwalker), and multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting broad device supply chains (e.g., Ripple20, BadNeighbour, Drovorub). The report also calls attention to sophisticated, likely nation-state-level campaigns and supply-chain compromises such as SolarWinds/SUNBURST, urging organizations to prioritize patching, monitoring, and use of available defensive tools and dashboards.