Cyber Attack Trends: 2020 Mid-Year Report

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• Check Point Research publishes its 2020 Mid-Year Report, giving a detailed overview of the current cyber threat landscape.
  · COVID-19 related phishing and malware attacks increased dramatically from under 5,000 thousand per week in February, to over 200,000 per week in late April
  · 34% increase in all types of cyber-attacks globally in the past two months compared to March and April 2020
  · Cryptominers lead cyber attack categories globally, making up nearly 20% of all cyber attacks
  · Email attack vectors (78%) dominate web attack vectors (22%)
  · Excel files (exe) are the top malicious files across web (42%) and email (26%)
  · 80% of the observed attacks utilized vulnerabilities reported and registered in 2017 and earlier
  · More than 20% of the attacks used vulnerabilities that are at least seven years
• Get the full report:
  https://lnkd.in/g2dTjWB