According to the Cyber Attack Trends: 2022 Security Report by Check Point Research, the education and research sectors have been the most targeted sectors, after analysing data that uncovered the key cyber security trends from 2021, which included the supply chain attack “frenzy” that is increasing disruption to everyday life.

From the SolarWinds attack at the beginning of the year, which presented a whole new level of sophistication and spread, all the way through to December and the influx of Apache Log4j vulnerability exploitations, the 2022 Security Report reveals the key attack vectors and techniques witnessed by CPR during 2021.

Check Point Research (CPR), the threat intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, found that overall, in 2021, organisations experienced 50 per cent more weekly cyber attacks than in 2020. With the education and research sectors’ 1,605 weekly attacks taking the lead (75 per cent increase). This was followed by government and military with 1,136 weekly attacks (47 per cent increase) and communications with 1,079 weekly attacks (51 per cent increase).

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