MANAMA: More than 13 million (13,099,967) email threats, 480,244 malware attacks, and 1,760,236 URL victims’ attacks were detected and blocked by cybersecurity firm Trend Micro last year.
This was revealed in the Japanese multinational’s 2021 annual cybersecurity report: Navigating New Frontiers.
The report highlights the growing rate of cyber-attacks by malicious actors on digital infrastructures and individuals in the modern-day hybrid work environment.
Trend Micro said shielding remote learning and working, smart home network (SHN) solutions protected devices and networks from 12,627 SHN inbound and outbound attacks and prevented 429,817 SHN events in Bahrain last year.
“Bahrain has consistently met the hurdles of the evolving threat landscape through the pandemic and many other events that have created a ripple effect in their digital environments,” said Trend Micro Gulf Cluster managing director Assad Arabi. “And in today’s hybrid-rich operations, organisations have had to reassess their cybersecurity strategies to meet the challenges of protecting employees in remote locations with access to an enterprise network. The annual cybersecurity report provides necessary insight that can dictate the correct course of actions in shielding all digital journeys with robust multilayered solutions from highly sophisticated threats.”
The report states that globally Trend Micro solutions stopped over 94.2 billion threats in 2021, a 42pc increase in the number of detections recorded in 2020. Attacks had surged over 53bn in the second half of 2021, blocking 41bn threats in H1 2021. Ransomware attackers are shifting their focus to critical businesses and industries more likely to pay, and double extortion tactics ensure that they are able to profit.
Ransomware-as-a-service offerings have opened the market to cybercriminals with limited technical knowledge, as well as given rise to more specialisation, such as initial access brokers who are now an essential part of the cybercrime supply chain.
Threat actors are getting better at exploiting human error to compromise cloud infrastructure and remote workers. Homeworkers are often prone to take more risks than those in the office, which makes phishing a greater risk.
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