Brazilian companies were the target of 356 billion attempts on cyber attacks in 2024

Brazilian companies were the target of 356 billion initiatives on cyber attacks last year. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, who took into account Latin America, was a “champion”.

Figures Fortuard Labs, Analysis and Threat Intelligence Laboratory, Cyber ​​Security Company was compiled at Fortinet.

According to the brand, it was an important growth last year not only in numbers but also in the complexity of attacks. Latin America has been the target of more than 921 trillion activity by counting what was identified by Fortinet.

The continent also had 918 billion activities blocked by teaching prevention systems. Despite the ransom software that has become popular in recent years, the service (DDOS) attacks increased by 1.801% compared between 2024 and 2023.

How to fight threats?

Fortinet Engineering Vice President Alexandre Bonatti pointed out that for 2025, companies should foresee cyber crimes. Therefore, speed will be a differential this year in response to attacks.

“Hacker attacks were discovered in 21 days until a few years ago. This is a decreased deadline today, but it needs to be even shorter than time may be very important to end a job. ”

Fortinet listed some actions that may make a difference in the fight against virtual crimes:

• Apply zero trust architectures to minimize the attack surface;
• Use advanced detection and response tools such as EDR, XDR and Sound;
• Protect yourself against counter -attacks through the latest technology firewalls and malicious traffic filtering;
• Apply security patches and updates to all critical systems;
• Continuous training for identifying and preventing threats such as identity hunting.