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With the threat landscape continuously changing, businesses must be ready for anything
2020-05-20 05:00

Despite efforts by organizations to layer up their cyber defenses, the threat landscape is changing, attackers are innovating and automating their attacks, NTT reveals.

The attack data indicates that 55% of all attacks in 2019 were a combination of web-application and application-specific attacks, up from 32% the year before, while 20% of attacks targeted CMS suites and more than 28% targeted technologies that support websites.

"Mark Thomas who leads NTT's Global Threat intelligence Center, comments:"The technology sector experienced a 70% increase in overall attack volume.

"Attacks on government organizations nearly doubled, including big jumps in both reconnaissance activity and application-specific attacks, driven by threat actors taking advantage of the increase in online local and regional services delivered to citizens."

Attacks on Content Management Systems accounted for about 20% of all attacks: Targeting popular CMS platforms like WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and noneCMS, cyber criminals used them as a route into businesses to steal valuable data and launch additional attacks.


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