Cloudflare Systems just shared its annual report for 2024 with alarming findings.
The latest Cloudflare Radar Year in Review spoke about mitigating 6.5% of global traffic as dangerous while 4.3% of all emails entailed deceptive links. This includes questionable identification.
Amongst the countries with the highest risk, Albania topped the list with the most malicious traffic which stood at 42.8%. Meanwhile, the shares for the US grew to 5% while 44 nations had more than 10% of traffic mitigated due to the dangers they possess.
The company usually makes use of DDoS mitigation techniques or WAF rules to combat the threat, it explained. Meanwhile, amongst the most targeted industries included the likes of games and then finance.
Today, the Apache Log4j software is amongst the leading active threats and still gets attacked as a leading target. The trend saw an upward surge with a long list of spikes seen during the year’s first half.
Cloudflare also warned about emails that trend as malicious without the user knowing. They end up opening them up without realizing the great threats they come with. This includes scammers stealing personal data such as money, credentials, and more. Around 43% had scam links while 35% had ID deception and 25% had credential harvesters running at large.
99% of all the email texts arose from top-level domains, the report highlights. They were either filled with malware or spam. The report further goes on to delineate more about top-level domains that arose from places like Western Samoa and more than 90% of all emails arose from ws. Domains that were malicious in nature.
225 major internet outages took place in 2024 and some of the most common threats outlined include government-based shutdowns and cable cuts while cyberattacks resulted in a long list of internet outages.
The report concludes with a discussion about quantum computers and how they end up cracking down on nearly 87% of all online traffic. It’s great to see more people adopting the technology with nearly 13% of encrypted traffic using post-quantum encryption.
So far, this term is reserved for cryptographic techniques designed for data protection from different adversaries that can store and capture current data for matters like decryption by adding the right kind of quantum tech in the future.
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The latest Cloudflare Radar Year in Review spoke about mitigating 6.5% of global traffic as dangerous while 4.3% of all emails entailed deceptive links. This includes questionable identification.
Amongst the countries with the highest risk, Albania topped the list with the most malicious traffic which stood at 42.8%. Meanwhile, the shares for the US grew to 5% while 44 nations had more than 10% of traffic mitigated due to the dangers they possess.
The company usually makes use of DDoS mitigation techniques or WAF rules to combat the threat, it explained. Meanwhile, amongst the most targeted industries included the likes of games and then finance.
Today, the Apache Log4j software is amongst the leading active threats and still gets attacked as a leading target. The trend saw an upward surge with a long list of spikes seen during the year’s first half.
Cloudflare also warned about emails that trend as malicious without the user knowing. They end up opening them up without realizing the great threats they come with. This includes scammers stealing personal data such as money, credentials, and more. Around 43% had scam links while 35% had ID deception and 25% had credential harvesters running at large.
99% of all the email texts arose from top-level domains, the report highlights. They were either filled with malware or spam. The report further goes on to delineate more about top-level domains that arose from places like Western Samoa and more than 90% of all emails arose from ws. Domains that were malicious in nature.
225 major internet outages took place in 2024 and some of the most common threats outlined include government-based shutdowns and cable cuts while cyberattacks resulted in a long list of internet outages.
The report concludes with a discussion about quantum computers and how they end up cracking down on nearly 87% of all online traffic. It’s great to see more people adopting the technology with nearly 13% of encrypted traffic using post-quantum encryption.
So far, this term is reserved for cryptographic techniques designed for data protection from different adversaries that can store and capture current data for matters like decryption by adding the right kind of quantum tech in the future.
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