Top Cyber Attacks of 2020

 By The Hacker News - 2021-01-28

Description

Here's a closer look at some of the biggest cyberattacks of 2020.

Summary

  • With so much of the world transitioning to working, shopping, studying, and streaming online during the coronavirus pandemic, cybercriminals now have access to a larger base of potential victims than ever before. "
  • The first T-Mobile attack of 2020 was confirmed in March 2020, when a cybercriminal gained access to employee email accounts and stole data on T-Mobile employees and some of its customers.
  • Or maybe it's just to put that adversary on the defensive to see how they behave."
  • Hackers also monitored the internal emails of the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments, according to Reuters, which broke the news of the cyberattack in mid-December.

 

Topics

  1. Security (0.38)
  2. Backend (0.14)
  3. Management (0.1)

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