In the software industry, the automation of factories and offices has been a major topic for years. After an analysis by a British company, online criminals have also discovered the advantages for themselves.
After a new data analysis, criminal hackers are increasingly relying on automated mass attacks for cyber attacks.
In contrast, targeted attacks in which hackers are still personally at the computer are rarer, according to the new Cybercrime Report from the British company Lexisnexis.
According to this, between January and June automated attacks with the help of bot networks increased by 41 percent to an estimated 1.2 billion individual cases, around half of which affected companies in the financial services sector. Bot attacks are attacks from remote-controlled networked computers. Malicious botnets are mostly used to send spam or steal user data. Non-automated hacker attacks decreased by almost 30 percent.
The country that most bot attacks originated remains the United States, according to the report. The growth in automated online attacks was strongest in the Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions. In contrast, the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) recorded the smallest increase.
According to its own information, Lexisnexis evaluated data from corporate customers for the report – this includes, among other things, 20 billion logins and almost five billion payment transactions. The company is part of the London-based Relx Group, an international provider of databases, including security software for digital identification.
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