The biggest cyberattack of 2020 has already happened according to amanda finch ceo of the chartered institute of information security ciisec.
Cyber security attacks 2020.
In fact a report by threat horizon reveals that in the coming years organizations will face cyber threats under three key themes.
Health and human services department suffered a cyber attack on its computer system part of what people familiar with the incident called a campaign of disruption and disinformation that.
Her words are a wake up call to organizations to take pre emptive action against future and potentially catastrophic cybersecurity breaches.
Ever more sophisticated cyberattacks involving malware phishing machine learning and artificial intelligence cryptocurrency and more have placed the data and assets of corporations governments and individuals at constant risk.
The personal information involved in this incident included names social security numbers tax identification numbers financial account information driver s licenses.
However 2020 comes with a whole new level of cybersecurity threats that businesses need to be aware of.
List of data breaches and cyber attacks in may 2020 8 8 billion records breached luke irwin 1st june 2020 we have just seen 8 801 171 594 breached data records in one month.
Different methods require different prevention strategies.
This wasn t the first time a major hack sent cyber companies surging.
Every other day we read news related to cybersecurity threats like ransomware phishing or iot based attacks.
How to protect your organization from the most common cyber attack vectors.
Cognizant one of the largest it managed services company announced its user s information was accessed and stolen in a ransomware attack back in april 2020.
In february 2015 us health insurer anthem revealed 80 million personal records were stolen.
What a cyber security attack looks like in 2020 and how to identify one.
As per the idc s research the average costs correlated with a dns mugging rose by 49 associated with a year earlier however in the u s the average price of a dns attack trims out at more than 1 27 million.
A host of new and evolving cybersecurity threats has the information security industry on high alert.
It s something that cyber criminals have been capitalising on despite the changing working circumstances with more people working remotely during 2020 with bitdefender s mid year threat landscape.