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NTT Ltd. today launched its 2021 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR), which reveals how hackers are taking advantage of the global destabilization by targeting essential industries and common vulnerabilities from the shift to remote working. Healthcare, manufacturing, and finance industries all saw an increase in attacks (200%, 300%, and 53% respectively), with these top three sectors accounting for a combined total of 62% of all attacks in 2020, up 11% from 2019.
As organizations race to offer more virtual, remote access through the use of client portals, application-specific and web-application attacks spiked, accounting for 67% of all attacks, which has more than doubled in the past two years. Healthcare bore the brunt of these attacks from its shift to telehealth and remote care, with 97% of all hostile activity targeted at the industry being web-application or application-specific attacks.
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Engineering firm involved in Nine HQ hit by cyber raid
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An engineering company paid by Nine to help find and plan its Sydney headquarters has been hit by a ransomware attack, with hackers threatening to release a trove of stolen information.
The cyber raid comes six weeks after an attack on Nine’s North Sydney offices at 1 Denison Street, which disrupted publishing and broadcasting at the country’s largest media company.
An artist’s render of Nine’s North Sydney headquarters at 1 Denison Street.
Sydney-headquartered Medland Engineering, which has offices across Australia and in London, was given 10 days to pay a ransom, after which the hackers said they would publish stolen information on the dark web.
Application Attacks Spike as Criminals Target Remote Workers
Application-specific and Web application attacks made up 67% of all attacks in 2020 as criminal strategies shifted in the pandemic.
Cybercriminals change in strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic caused application-specific and Web application attacks to spike, according to a new report that finds these threats made up 67% of all attacks last year, a number that has more than doubled in the past two years.
The NTT 2021 Global Threat Intelligence Report, which contains global attack data from Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020, says the healthcare, manufacturing, and finance industries all saw a jump in cyberattacks of 200%, 300%, and 53%, respectively. These three sectors accounted for 62% of all attacks last year – up 11% from 2019.