2020 was a record year for online scams
During 2020, there were 15 times more online scams than in the previous year, a new report from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) claims. Basing the report on the results of the organization’s Active Cyber Defence program, the NCSC claims to have mitigated more than 700,000 online scams last year, which includes 1.4 million URLs. The program heavily …
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Global venture funding hit a new record high in Q1 2021
A full year of the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in tectonic movements in the business world, with tech companies in particular recording extreme growth. According to a new report from Crunchbase, there are now a greater number of unicorns (companies valued at $1bn or higher) than ever before. The report states that global venture investments hit $125 billion in the …
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Security threat to critical infrastructure reaches record high
Industrial organizations are speeding up their digital transformation efforts in order to better navigate the Covid-19 pandemic, but have attracted the attention of cybercriminals in the process. A new report from Nozomi Networks Labs found that 2020 was a record-breaking year in terms of the weaponization of the supply chain, as well as the number, sophistication and destructive force of …
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A record number of DDoS attacks took place in 2020
In 2020, for the first time ever, more than 10 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were recorded in a single year. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Netscout, whose ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) observed a total of 10,089,687 attacks last year. Compared to 8.5 million attacks in 2019, that’s a 17 …
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