The report, compiled from the analysis of data from Cisco Umbrella, found that the biggest threats faced by various industries such as Manufacturing, Healthcare, Technology, Finance, Higher Education and Management in 2020 are phishing, trojan horse attacks, cryptocurrency mining and ransomware.

Taking advantage of the disruptions created by the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals are targeting companies and organizations in different industries with increasingly sophisticated malware attacks. Some of these are based on deceiving the user, while others steal important information by installing malicious programs on computers.

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The Colonial Pipeline company, which operates a fuel pipeline in the United States, had temporarily suspended its operations on May 7, 2021, declaring that it was targeted by ransomware. Cyber ​​security company ESET drew attention to such attacks, stating that the attack on the Colonial fuel pipeline reminds us of the increasing cyber threats to critical infrastructures.

The Colonial pipeline system, which is about 9 thousand kilometers long, was affected by the cyber attack in the first week of May, and millions of barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel could not be transported from the Gulf of Mexico to the East Coast.

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