Security News > 2020 > May > Verizon DBIR: Web App Attacks and Security Errors Surge

While cyber-espionage attacks and malware decreased, other trends, such as security "Errors", denial-of-service campaigns and web application attacks saw startling growth.

They're already attacking those service oriented workflows, particularly using things like credentials, which is 80 percent of the attacks.

That just hasn't been the case in the last year or two instead. What is more common is attacks on their web app infrastructure.

We've seen breaches both of personal information as well as breaches that are installing malware on the web app, or installing some type of software to capture credit card numbers and other data that's flowing through the web app for the attackers.

It's really only constrained by the number of attackers and their ability to automate their attack, which is one of the reasons that throughout the report, we kind of hit on the importance of the simple attacks because for the attackers, the simpler, the more automated they can make their attack, the more money they're gonna make.

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https://threatpost.com/verizon-dbir-web-app-attacks-and-security-errors-surge/155903/