22 MILLION CYBER ATTACKS ON COMPANIES REPORTED DURING THE LAST 7 DAYS

Few illicit activities have shown as much evolution and growth as cybercrime. According to information published by Atlas VPN, malicious hackers around the world have made more than 22 million attempts to attack business organizations over the past seven days; more than 60% of these attacks are related to malware infections. 

Malware infections regularly have to do with activities such as theft of sensitive information or blocking files and systems to demand a ransom in exchange for restoring affected resources (ransomware attack). Other common attack variants are phishing campaigns and Command & Control (C&C) attacks.

To develop this analysis, Atlas VPN used data collected by Akami, a cybersecurity company that provides real-time information about cyberattacks against corporate customers.

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