Malicious Software Camouflaged with SSL/TLS Encryption Rose Steeply in 2015

Cyber criminals are utilizing encrypted traffic for camouflaging malicious software trying to infect consumers' computers as well as businesses' PC networks. The tactic has considerably increased during 2015, according to security researchers.

Blue Coat a cyber security company states that cyber criminals are conspicuously utilizing TLS/SSL encryption protocols that relate to privacy concerns. But, since many people are presently utilizing the said encryption standards, it seems that along with private individuals, miscreants too are leveraging the SSL/TLS encryption protocols for masking their operations. Zdnet.com posted this online dated August 2, 2016.

Since consumer and organization data these days are widely encrypted as a security measure, security professionals keep noticing that this increasing utilization of the particular encryption helps both businesses and cyber criminals. According to one research report, C&C servers, which employ SSL/TLS for camouflaging malicious software, rose 200 times during 2015.

It is also evident from research work that SSL/TLS-encrypted traffic within command and control servers rose 58 times.

According to a release, Blue Coat Systems a provider of organization security solutions stated that the encryption protocols in discussion would get utilized more and more later on for disguising attacks.

The current rise in the SSL/TLS usage in all probability would make security and Information Technology professionals worried. Encryption is purposed to beneficially safeguard user privacy while go on disguising communication to protect it from unwanted surveillance no matter if such surveillance is from cyber attackers, snooping governments or law enforcement. In the case of cyber attackers, encryption only enhances their assaults' severity.

According to Michael Fey, President and Chief Operating Officer of Blue Coat Systems, his organization's investigation has shown that SSL/TLS encryption traffic working like one main medium for malware infection and data exfiltration is remarkably rising. Given these expanding e-threats, a lot of organizations now understand that it is not so easy to maintain network performance in balance with accurate SSL/TLS inspection as the organizations are led to comprehend by their guarantors of network security.

Very recently Blue Coat declared its encouragement for SCADA arrangements as well as anomaly detection under the company's different security solutions.

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