CYBER insecurities in 2023

TOP CYBER TRENDS IN 2023:

 Cyber crimes are one of the most prevalent and dangerous types of threats that organizations around the world are currently facing . But how bad is the threat landscape looking to help you stay on top of the latest trends, I've pulled together the most recent statistics from around the world you will get to know what you can do to ensure you're protected. Let's look at the top three cyber crime Trends in 2023. 

The first Trend to know is social media have become the new Target for cyber criminals. Nowadays employee phishing emails can be hyper personalized sophisticated hard to detect and surprisingly cunning. For even the most security Savvy individual a recent report conducted by checkpoint research has discovered a new trend they found that there's an emerging trend of social engineering scams to move away from shipping companies and Tech Giants towards social media Networks. In q1 2022 social networks, were the most targeted category Trend number two security threats sharply increased during the pandemic scalar indicated that between January and March alone in 2020 the number of blocked suspicious messages targeting remote workers increased by thirty thousand percent and the number of covid-19 related spear phishing attacks Rose by 667 percent they also found that since the outbreak there were more than 130 000 suspicious. Newly registered domains cyber Crooks registered new domains to take advantage of words and themes associated with current events and to evade detection from reputation Block lists Trend number. Three phishing Remains the most popular type of cyber crime among all different kinds of cyber attacks phishing Remains the biggest threat to individuals and businesses. 

Phishing :

Phishing is a type of online fraud that involves tricking people into providing sensitive information such as passwords or credit card numbers by masquerading as a trustworthy source.

 In our increasingly technological World phishing attacks are evolving at a quicker Pace than many of us seem to realize the days of deploying a large mass of generic and fraudulent emails to endless recipients are often being replaced with newer tactics. According to APWG's, phishing activity Trends report published in February 2022. Phishing attacks hit an all-time high with more than 300, 000 attacks recorded in December 2021. These incidents have become more than three times as common as they were three years ago. 

How to keep your business data secure? 

According to the government, cyber security breaches survey 2022, 82 percent of Senior Management rates cyber security as at a very high or fairly high priority an increase of 77 percent in 2021. 72 percent of Charities rate cyber security as a very high or fairly high priority fifty percent of businesses and 42 percent of Charities say they update the board on cyber security matters at least quarterly. 

Phishing reports and statistics are Beyond a warning sign of just how serious and prevalent phishing campaigns are training and educating employees on the risks of phishing attacks and how to spot the telltale signs are proven ways of lowering the threat one of the most effective ways of seeing how susceptible your end users are is to run simulated phishing campaigns.