5 biggest cybersecurity threats | 2021-02-03 | Security Magazine - 0 views
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the FBI has seen a fourfold increase in cybersecurity complaints, whereas the global losses from cybercrime exceeded $1 trillion in 2020.
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In 2020, almost a third of the breaches incorporated social engineering techniques, of which 90% were phishing.
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Ransomware is a data-encrypting program that demands payment to release the infected data. The overall sum of ransom demands will have reached $1.4 billion in 2020, with an average sum to rectify the damage reaching up to $1.45 million.
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