Security News > 2021 > February > LIVE Webinar: Major Lessons to be Learned from Top Cyber Attacks in 2020

With a history of leveraging societal maladies to their advantage, cyber criminals leverage the confusion and unpreparedness created by the global pandemic in their cyber attacks.

Cybersecurity company Cynet will help by reviewing the 2020 high profile attacks in depth and guide cybersecurity professionals for 2021 in an upcoming webinar.

Without enough space to cover all the top attacks in 2020, several significant breaches were predominantly accomplished by new techniques.

The attackers then used that access to produce and distribute trojanized updates to the software's users, including 425 of the US Fortune 500, the top ten US telecommunications companies, the top five US accounting firms, all branches of the US Military, the Pentagon, and the State Department, as well as hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Software AG. The second-largest software vendor in Germany and the seventh-largest in Europe, Software AG was reportedly hit by a Clop ransomware attack in October 2020.

A large remote workforce likely opens companies up to traditional social engineering attacks as well.

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