Security News > 2020 > May > Verizon Data Breach Report: DoS Skyrockets, Espionage Dips
While DoS attacks use differing tactics, they most commonly involve sending junk network traffic to overwhelm and crash systems.
Cyber espionage attacks meanwhile have seen a downward spiral, dropping from making up 13.5 percent of breaches in 2018 to a mere 3.2 percent of data breaches in 2019.
"External attackers are considerably more common in our data than are internal attackers, and always have been," said researchers.
Point of Sale-related attacks once dominated breaches in the accommodation and food services industry - however, they have been replaces by malware attacks and web application attacks.
"Financially motivated attackers continue to target this industry for the payment card data it holds."
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