BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 14
By Sadraddin Aghjayev - Trend:
This type of fraud, such as spear phishing, became one of the main cyber threats in the first quarter of 2021, the US McAfee company (an anti-virus software developer) told Trend.
"This is followed by usage of publicly available applications, one of the three most popular methods of gaining initial access due to the publication of a list of Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that affect thousands of organizations worldwide," the company added. "This data encryption technology to make pressure has become a hallmark of ransomware."
The most popular ransomware families that have made successful attacks are REvil - 1,358 successful attacks, RansomEXX - 225, Ryuk - 160, NetWalker - 81, Thanos - 56, Mount Locker - 50, WastedLocker - 47, Exorcist - 45, and less than 20 - Conti, Maze, Babuk, Syncrypt.
Most cyberattacks were observed in the US (775 billion), 55 billion in Russia, and 19 billion in Turkey in the first quarter of this year.
The total number of requests related to cybersecurity for three months of 2021 in Azerbaijan reached 1,174, of which 96.5 percent were considered and met. The number of requests was 4,989 in 2020, of which 97 percent were considered and met.
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