Cyber attacks in 2021
- 2. With the Pandemic still lurking around for another year of doubt and unpredictability, the awareness for Cybersecurity and what 2021 holds for the cyber world is crucial to predict strategic responses for the challenges of a new year.
- 3. Cybersecurity experts predict that cyber attacks will be twice as what happened in 2019. It is predicted that Cybercrimes will cost the global economy $6.1 trillion annually and the pandemic is helping it.
- 4. The remote working and the work at home culture that has been adopted in the face of pandemic builds a virtual framework that can be easily exploited. Cyber Attacks in the pandemic
- 5. Pandemic and its corresponding dependency on virtual platforms and remote working have given rise to cyber attacks through over 4,000 malicious COVID sites which popped up just in the first months of the pandemic.
- 6. Unlike previous years, companies are less negligent and more watchful for the cyber issues they might face in the coming year. More companies now take the issue of cybersecurity seriously and thus look for papers such as “trends”, ” Findings “, “cyber issues”, ” Recommended solutions”, “actions required” or “Themes” to describe what happened, what is coming next and what needs to be done now to be prepared for 2021 and beyond. It is predicted that in 2021, more attacks than in 2020 will occur on home computers and networks by taking advantage of architecture weaknesses. With the widely scattered workforce and the increasing use of cloud, there will be more security holes, challenges misconfigurations, and outages. Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) attacks will be widely found from cybercriminals. Using Cryptocurrency, cybercriminals will play new roles with hiding advantages.
- 7. Nation State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks in 2021 According to the 2020 CrowdStrike Global Security Attitude Survey report, Cybersecurity experts predicts that nation-state sponsored Cyber attacks will be the biggest threat for 2021.
- 8. In the survey, 73% of respondents believe that nation-state-sponsored cyber attacks will pose the single biggest threat to organizations like theirs in 2021. The growing geopolitical tension across the globe and major countries is the growing reason for such predictions about state- sponsored cyber attacks.
- 9. ANOTHER MAJOR CYBER ATTACK IS CAUSED BY RANSOMWARE ATTACKS 50 % of the organizations surveyed have suffered a ransomware attack as the cyber attack in the last year and nearly 71% of cybersecurity experts globally are more worried about ransomware attacks due to Covid-19
- 10. The increasingly technologically driven society and an accelerating digital transformation accompanied by COVID 19 have driven a rise in cyber attacks. The increasing number of mobile phone users and mobile data traffic further makes the world more vulnerable to a digital space that is highly unoccupied with adequate cybersecurity measures. So, with the increased level of cyber attack and a relentless virus lurking through the city 2021 will definitely be a year of challenges.