According to Safety Detectives, our home networks and businesses
are ill-prepared for a cyberattack!
32% PHISHING / SOCIAL ENGINEERING
4.1 billion records of Data Breaches in first half of 2019
Verifications.io → 763 million users
Canva → 137 million users
34% of data breaches involved internal actors
94% of malware is delivered via email
Malware disguised as harmless .doc, .dot, .exe
Today most popular, malwares are being disguised as Word doc files because people do not suspect “.doc” files
Checking file type is important. From the onset, it might look like a PDF file, e.g. “invoice.pdf”, but when you check file type, it is in fact a “invoice.pdf.exe” file.
$6 trillion annual cybersecurity damage by 2021 (Cybersecurity Ventures)
Ransomware damage costs rise to $11.5 billion in 2019,
a victim every 14 seconds (Cybersecurity Ventures)
65% of groups used spear-phishing as the primary infection vector (Symantec)
IoT devices experience an average of 5,200 attacks per month (Symantec)
90% of remote code execution attacks
are associated with crypto-mining (CSO Online)