this Kaspersky This week, it released another one of its cybersecurity research reports, which showed significant growth. Attacks on small and medium businesses (SMEs) in Brazil. Password theft attempts were the ones that increased the most, growing 143% country for the past year.
The information relates to the number of blocks for each type of attack that the security software reports to Kaspersky. According to the company, it’s Trojan-PSW (password stealing software) that has more than doubled from last year. This puts Brazil second only to Mexico in the highest number of attacks of this type.
Two other types of attacks against SMBs that were also growing here were internet infection and brute-force attacks on remote access to corporate networks. The first refers to the contamination of large and popular websites with malware that infects computers when accessing them to gain access to device information. 2.6 million blocks of this type were recorded in Brazil from January to April 2022, placing the country in the first place in Latin America for such attacks.
Remote desktop brute force attacks are programs that automatically test passwords until they manage to break into a company’s network. Remote access has become popular with the number of people working from home, so such attacks have increased a lot. According to Kaspersky, there were 20 million startups recorded during this period, placing Brazil not only at the top of the rankings of countries most affected by such attacks, but also in a distant leader with four times more startups than second place. , which to Colombia.
Source: Tec Mundo
