Security News > 2021 > April > Attacks against cloud users surged in 2020

For its McAfee Labs Threats Report: April 2021 report, the security provider focused on cyber incidents and malware that occurred during the third and fourth quarters of 2020.

Though these types of attacks hit a high during the second quarter, they remained steady in most countries and increased in some over the third and fourth quarters.

Among the 10 countries analyzed in the report, Thailand experienced the highest number of cloud-based attacks last year with more than 600,000 just in the second quarter and around 500,000 in the third quarter and the same number in the fourth quarter.

For the second quarter, McAfee found a 605% increase in these types of threats, followed by a gain of 240% in the third quarter and 114% in the fourth quarter.

Ransomware attacks observed by McAfee grew by 69% from the third to the fourth quarter as REvil, Thanos, Ryuk, RansomeXX and Maze proved themselves as the top ransomware families.

PowerShell threats grew by 208% in the fourth quarter as McAfee caught several attacks that tried to inject malicious code into legitimate running processes.

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