Check Point report predicts ransomware trends

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Check Point has released its ‘Cyber Attack Trends: 2022 Mid-Year Report’.

In the first half of this year, there was a 42% increase in weekly cyber attacks globally, with every region experiencing a significant escalation.

The report used up-to-date statistics on industry and regional cyber attacks as well as advice and predictions for the remainder of 2022 including an analysis of incident response that explored the full lifecycle of a cyber attack. It revealed how cyber attacks have led to major disruption, causing harm to civic and cyber life in 2022.

Unfortunately, this will only get worse especially with ransomware now being the number one threat to organisations. However, with the right expertise, strategy and cyber security solutions in place, companies are able to prevent attacks from happening, she says.The report also predicted that ransomware will become a much more fragmented ecosystem.

In addition, we can expect more diverse e-mail infection chains. Because Microsoft Office now blocks the implementation of Internet macros by default, the more sophisticated malware families will accelerate the development of new infection chains, with different file types that are password protected to prevent detection as sophisticated social engineering attacks increase.

 

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