You are teleworking, you are or will be the target of hacking like more than 85% of workers in North America.

Scary Hacking Statistics (Editor’s Choice):

• There is a hacker attack every 39 seconds.
• Russian hackers are the fastest.
• 300,000 new malware is created every day.
• Multi-factor authentication and encryption are the biggest hacker obstacles.
• You can become an American citizen for $6,000.
• The average cost of data breaches will be about 150 million in 2020.
• The cybersecurity budget in the US is $14.98 billion.

Sounds fascinating, doesn’t it? Let’s delve in deeper and find more details about each one.

Source: https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/hacking-statistics/#gref

Here are the sectors of activity most targeted by attacks:

Banking trojan malware is masquerading as a WHO-developed mobile application helping individuals recover, or virtual private network (VPN) installers. And consider that Check Point research shows some 4,000 COVID-19 domains have been registered this year, many likely fronts for cybercrime.

3 questions to ask yourself:

1. Do you feel like you are receiving a lot of spam or emails? phishing?
2. Do you provide regular and ongoing safety awareness training?
3. If not, when was your last communication to staff about the safety of emails?

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Sources of the article: https://www.raconteur.net/technology/cybersecurity-2020/covid-19-cybersecurity

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