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.
Cyber security attacks 2020.
Her words are a wake up call to organizations to take pre emptive action against future and potentially catastrophic cybersecurity breaches.
Approximately half of the respondents 48 state that wasting more than 500 000 to a dns attack and about 10 say that they lost more than 5 million on each break.
A host of new and evolving cybersecurity threats has the information security industry on high alert.
What a cyber security attack looks like in 2020 and how to identify one.
In fact a report by threat horizon reveals that in the coming years organizations will face cyber threats under three key themes.
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.
The biggest cyberattack of 2020 has already happened according to amanda finch ceo of the chartered institute of information security ciisec.
Different methods require different prevention strategies.
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.
However 2020 comes with a whole new level of cybersecurity threats that businesses need to be aware of.
In february 2015 us health insurer anthem revealed 80 million personal records were stolen.
The personal information involved in this incident included names social security numbers tax identification numbers financial account information driver s licenses.
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 the event an attack.
How to protect your organization from the most common cyber attack vectors.
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.
This wasn t the first time a major hack sent cyber companies surging.