2019: The year in cyber attacks

Check Point Research has released its 2020 Cyber Security Report, looking at the key malware and cyber-attack trends during 2019. Even though cryptomining declined during 2019, linked to cryptocurrencies' fall in value and the closure of the Coinhive operation in March, 38 percent of companies globally were impacted by crypto-miners in 2019, up from 37 percent the previous year. Crypto-miners remain a low-risk, high-reward activity for criminals. Botnets continue to be a problem too. 28 percent of organizations globally were hit by botnet activity, an increase of over 50 percent compared with 2018. Emotet was the most common bot malware… [Continue Reading]