According to the latest edition of verizon’s data breach investigations analysis state that data breaches increased, even more, compared to the last five years.
What verizon’s study says that ransomware attacks continue to grow in their cybersecurity market because they offer effective illegal access to private information and found more than 60% of system intrusion incidents came through an organization partner a so-called third-party data breach.
Attackers compromise the right partner who lacks awareness about cybersecurity remains a key vector for their success to perform attacks. Half of the total breaches in 2022 were reported as social engineering attacks such as phishing.
Human errors are the main privilege to misuse, the human element accounts for 82% of analyzed breaches over the past few years concluded to Verizon.
With the growth of ransomware attacks and in a particular incident like the colonial pipeline attack that affects the real economy, the US developing several multi-agency.
During a session at the cyberUK conference, senior advisor of NSA Rob Joyce explains that banking sanctions impact Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has the ability of Russian-based cybercriminals to Buy or rent internet infrastructure, which leads to ransomware scams.
Other experts demonstrate, recent ransomware-focused on Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova. Some experts suspect the war led to many cyberattacks of ransomware scams in this region to temporarily suspend operations and relocate rather a shut-up shop.