Wednesday, October 22, 2025
spot_img

Remote work leads to massive surge in hacking globally: Report

spot_img
- Advertisement -

Remote work leads to massive surge in hacking globally: Report

New York, With most people working from home, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, there has been a surge in cyber crime. The year 2021 saw 5,258 data breaches across the globe, a third more breaches analysed than last year, according to a report on Thursday.

The 14th edition of Data Breach Investigations Report (2021 DBIR) by US-based Verizon Business, analysed 29,207 security incidents from data collected from 83 contributors, with victims spanning 88 countries; 12 industries, and three world regions.

The report showed that with an unprecedented number of people working remotely, phishing and ransomware attacks increased by 11 per cent and 6 per cent respectively, with instances of misrepresentation increasing by 15 times compared to last year.

Additionally, breached data showed that 61 per cent of breaches involved credential data. About 95 per cent of organisations suffering credential stuffing attacks had between 637 and 3.3 billion malicious login attempts through the year.

“The Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on many of the security challenges organisations are currently facing,” said Tami Erwin, CEO, Verizon Business, in a statement.

“As the number of companies switching business-critical functions to the cloud increases, the potential threat to their operations may become more pronounced, as malicious actors look to exploit human vulnerabilities and leverage an increased dependency on digital infrastructures” Erwin added.

Among Financial and insurance industries, 83 per cent of data compromised in breaches was personal data, while in Professional, Scientific and Technical services industries only 49 per cent was personal.

Further, the 2021 DBIR report also revealed many breaches that took place in Asia Pacific regions were caused by financially motivated attackers — phishing employees for credentials, and then using those stolen credentials to gain access to mail accounts and web application servers.

Europe, Middle East and Africa regions saw basic web application attacks, system intrusion, and social engineering, while Northern America was the target of financially motivated cyber criminals searching for money or easily monetisable data. Social engineering, hacking and malware continued to be the favoured tools utilised by cyber criminals in this region.

spot_img

Editorial

Why TCS Deferred FY25 Salary Hike: Better Hike Ahead?

TCS had initially announced its annual salary hike during...

Deloitte, PWC, EY, KPMG to Hire 1 Lakh People in India in FY25

According to estimates from top company officials and industry...

Higher EPS Pension Application Stuck: A Step-by-Step Guide to Fix

Nearly 97,640 Provident Fund (PF) members and pensioners under...

Employee Benefits at India’s Big 4 Firms Deloitte, PwC , EY, KPMG

The Big 4 firms; Deloitte, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), EY (Ernst...

TCS Announces 4-8% Salary Hike for FY25, Lowest in Last 4 Years

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT services provider,...

Must Read

NEC Corporation to hire 14000 employees

Economic times reports, NEC Corporation is planning to more than...

Capgemini to cover vaccination cost for India employees, their dependents

Capgemini to cover vaccination cost for India employees, their...

Air India trying forced eviction, say employees

Tata-owned Air India has been ordered by the Bombay HC to...

Employee accused of taking the car on 220km joyride

According to TOI, In a recent case, an employee...

PwC is hiring for 2000+ roles; WFO jobs, Intern/Trainee; Apply Now

An accounting and professional services multinational company, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is hiring for...

Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic, India suspends visas

The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 outbreak a...

51% IT Freshers Waiting For More Than 1 Year To Get Onboarded

The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) conducted a...

ESIC Scheme adds 17.31 lakh new workers in March 2023

As per the provisional payroll data of ESIC, 17.31...

Related Articles

SightsIn Plus
SightsIn Plushttps://sightsinplus.com/
SightsIn Plus is an India’s leading high-quality people-focused monthly HR Magazine and provides up-to-date HR News, Leadership Announcements, Best HR Practices and Insights by Global CHROs, CEOs, HR Advisors, Business Managers and HR Heads on topics of interest to HR professionals. To subscribe SightsIn Plus, HR Magazine please visit- https://sightsinplus.com/subscribe/