The attack methods were unusual and krebs later determined that a mirai botnet consisting of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable iot devices was responsible.
Top cyber security attacks 2016.
Research new research reveals that cyber attack on the government sector doubled in 2016 hiking to 14 from 7 of all cyber security attacks in 2015.
Government at the top of cyber attack list 2016.
The three fold hack caused mass internet outage for large parts of the us and europe.
By identifying the most popular attacks in q2 of 2016 in the chart below the security engineering research team sert has taken the guess work out of knowing what you re up against.
In 2016 crooks have abused the international cross border payment messaging system swift to steal millions of dollars from banks across the world.
The largest cyber attack in recorded history happened on october 21 causing temporary shutdown of websites such as twitter netflix airbnb reddit soundcloud etc.
Attacks on the finance sector also rose dramatically from just 3 in 2015 to 14 of all attacks in 2016.
The infographic below has the details on just a few of the major attacks of 2016.
Web application attacks 24.
Again announced a massive breach in december of this year.
Cyber criminals have stolen 81 million.
Top 5 cyber attack types in 2016 so far by calyptix august 1 2016.
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The first major known cyber heist occurred in february against the bangladesh bank.
We look at the year s biggest security incidents.