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Report: Pretty much every type of cyberattack increased in 2021.

SonicWall's 2022 Cyber Threat Report has come to some alarming, but likely unsurprising, conclusions: Pretty much every category of cyberattack increased in volume over the course of 2021.

The only category to decrease in 2021 was malware attacks, which dropped by 4%. Still, SonicWall logged 5.4 billion malware attacks in 2021, making it the second highest attack type by total volume.

There has been a decided spike in every form of cybercrime, but SonicWall's report only describes one attack form as currently enjoying a "Savage reign" as the top threat: Ransomware.

Additional interesting statistics include the fact that IoT malware shows signs of stabilizing toward steady attack numbers, the number of CVV numbers issued set a record, there was a 65% increase in newly discovered malware variants, and malware attacks increased by 22% in the second half of 2021, erasing most of the decrease from earlier in the year.

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