Outside hackers were to blame for most data thefts last year, while in-house drama contributed to only a fifth of total computer security incidents, Verizon reckons.
In its 13th Data Breach Investigations Report, which probed some 4,000 intrusions and network breaches in 2019, Verizon found that the online world is still a fairly bad place if you’re not tooled up enough to defend yourself and your customers from external miscreants hoping to make bank.
“Financial motives is still number one,” the American telco giant's Alex Schlager told The Register. “86 per cent of the breaches were financially motivated, up from 71 per cent last year.”
The report revealed attacks involving malware infections dropped from almost half of all security breaches in 2016 to a “historical low” today, with criminals preferring phishing and siphoning off credential ..
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