Application Attacks Witnessed a Surge with Remote Working

Some stats your way

• App-specific attacks, web app attacks, and reconnaissance activity made up 87% of all activity last year.
• The finance sector was the worst impacted by these attacks with app-specific and web app attacks accounting for 73% of all attacks. 
• These were the top two attack modes in the Americas at 56%. Moreover, these two attacks combinedly made up 98% of all malicious activities on the healthcare sector in EMEA. 

What else?

• Cryptominers accounted for 41% of all detected malware, thus, replacing spyware. 
• While healthcare was most impacted by RATs, worms had a free reign in the manufacturing and finance sectors. However, the technology sector was plagued by ransomware. 

More statistics

• The year witnessed 4,862 incidents, among which 1,384 had confirmed data disclosure. 
• Web app vector was utilized to compromise mail servers, of which 96% were cloud-based. 

Latest incidents

• A newly discovered DNS bug, dubbed TsuNAME, can be used as an amplification vector in massive DDoS attacks. 
• A huge DDoS attack shut down the Belgium government’s websites and impacted internal networks and police services.
• Ukrainian security and defense websites were attacked by Russian cyber actors in a massive wave of DDoS attacks.

The bottom line