Security News > 2022 > January > Cyber-Spike: Orgs Suffer 925 Attacks per Week, an All-Time High

With millions of Log4j-targeted attacks clocking in per hour since the flaw's discovery last month, there's been a record-breaking peak of 925 cyberattacks a week per organization, globally.

The number comes out of a Monday report from Check Point Research, which found Log4Shell attacks to be a major contributor to a 50-percent increase year-over-year in overall attacks per week on corporate networks for 2021.

CPR researchers said that education/research was the sector that experienced the highest volume of attacks in 2021, with an average of 1,605 attacks per organization every week: a 75 increase from 2020.

Africa experienced the highest volume of attacks last year, with an average of 1,582 weekly attacks per organization: a 13-percent increase over 2020.

As shown in the chart below, APAC saw a 25 percent increase in weekly attacks per organization, with an average of 1,353 weekly attacks.

Latin America, with 1,118 attacks weekly, experienced a 38 percent increase; Europe, with 670 attacks weekly, clocked a 68 percent increase; and North America, with an average of 503 weekly attacks per organization, was under attack 61 percent more than in 2020.

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