Security News > 2022 > June > Top three most critical areas of web security
The three reports link the most prominent security trends and paint an accurate map of the modern attack landscape.
An up-to-date analysis of ransomware attack trends highlight the risks and suggest mitigation, while an analysis of Web app and API attack trends offers a fresh look at the infection vectors used by ransomware operators and others.
An analysis of the industries attacked highlights the risk of supply chain disruption, critical infrastructure impact, and supply chain cyberattacks.
Through the first half of 2022, significant increases were observed in web application and API attacks across the globe, with more than nine billion attack attempts to date.
Web application attack attempts against customers grew by more than 300% year over year in H1, the largest increase ever observed.
LFI attacks now surpass SQLi attacks as the most predominant WAAP attack vector, increasing by nearly 400% year over year.
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