The United States, the United Kingdom, India and Germany have experienced many “significant” cyber attacks over the past 14 years, reports a new report released this week by Swedish Specops Software.
The company analyzed data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to find out which countries have experienced the most “significant” cyberattacks, defined as attacks on “a country ’s government agencies, defense and high- tech companies , or financial crimes with losses equivalent to more than one million dollars.”
According to the findings, to date cyberattacks , totaling 156 between May 2006 and June 2020.The report noted that 2018 marked the “worst year” for cyberattacks with only 30 incidents occurring during the year.
After the US, the UK faced 47 significant cyber during the same period, India 23 significant attacks and Germany following with 21 cyber attacks.
Israel and France faced 11 significant cyberattacks between May 2006 and June 2020 .
The report also found that the most common techniques to cause significant cyber attacks included a Denial of Service Attack (DoS), which occurs when cybercriminals make a machine or network resource unavailable to its users by overwhelming it with requests until traffic is no longer possible. In addition to the SQL Injection Attack , which injects malicious SQL code into a database to access sensitive information, as well as a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack, in which hackers intercept communication between two parties. In addition, phishing attacks were another common method, in which emails are sent that appear to come from a trusted source but attempt to obtain sensitive information.
