Security News > 2021 > March > Insights for navigating a drastically changing threat landscape

In a recent report, Trend Micro announced it detected 119,000 cyber threats per minute in 2020 as home workers and infrastructure came under new pressure from attacks.

Attacks on homes surged 210% to reach nearly 2.9 billion-amounting to 15.5% of all homes.

Email-borne threats made up 91% of the 62.6 billion threats blocked last year, indicating that phishing attacks continued to be hugely popular.

The company detected nearly 14 million unique phishing URLs in 2020 as attackers targeted distracted home workers.

"In 2020, businesses faced unprecedented threat volumes hitting their extended infrastructure, including the networks of home workers. Familiar tactics such as phishing, brute forcing and vulnerability exploitation are still favored as the primary means of compromise, which should help when developing defenses," said Jon Clay, director of global threat communications for Trend Micro.

Changing threat landscape Newly detected ransomware families increased 34%, with "Double extortion" attacks - where attackers steal data before encrypting it to force payment by threatening to release the stolen information - and more targeted threats becoming increasingly popular.

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