Cynet Reviews the Top 6 Most Notable Cyber Attacks of 2020 Share Article NEW YORK (PRWEB) February 23, 2021 Cynet (http://www.cynet.com) today turned back the pages of 2020 to review the most noteworthy cyberattacks making up the cyber-pandemic, which came with COVID-19 and the flight of employees to remote work environments. These cyber events were part of an ongoing series of attacks, keeping IT security professionals on high alert. 2020 was the year that COVID-19 brought a major cyber-pandemic to the world. An assessment by INTERPOL revealed that organizations and businesses rapidly deploying remote systems and networks to support staff working from home were being taken advantage of by cybercriminals. The report noted that in a four-month period, "some 907,000 spam messages, 737 incidents related to malware and 48,000 malicious URLs – all related to COVID-19 – were detected by INTERPOL and its private sector partners." Many of these never made the headlines, but six major attacks did – ranked below by their overall impact.