In 2021, the highest average cost of a data breach in 17 years was recorded.
The most common cause of data breaches was theft of user credentials, in 2021.
In 2021, every second, 14 people around the world were victims of a cyber attack.
The digital world is undoubtedly one of the most used globally by people, but given this scenario, it can also be one of the most dangerous. Reddit, a popular forum on the Internet, has announced that it has been the target of a new cyber attack or hack, where cybercriminals steal confidential information from your system.
Cyber attacks are not new, and according to Unisys, it is an attempt to disable computers, steal data, or use an infiltrated computer system to launch additional attacks. Cyber criminals use different methods to launch a cyber attack including malware, phishing, ransomware, man-in-the-middle attack, or other methods.
According to data from the United Nations Organization (UN) in 2021, every second, 14 people around the world were victims of a cyber attack. Given this data, it is estimated that this reality could represent up to 2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the internet black market.
Also, another study conducted by the consulting firm PwC, in 2022, reported that more than 50 percent of companies around the world expect a rebound in cyberthreats.
Reddit reports hack
The Reddit platform, which has become a popular forum on the Internet, announced that it has been the target of a new cyberattack.
According to the platform, a group of cybercriminals stole the source code and internal information related to the business operations of the forum, in addition to obtaining other confidential data.
In this sense, the company had to resort to a statement where it explained that it was a “sophisticated and highly targeted phishing attack”.
In addition, the attackers specifically targeted the Reddit website, creating a fake intranet site that was actually a landing page. phishing scam designed to steal employee login credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) tokens.
So, after executing his plan, cybercriminals targeted an unknown number of Reddit employees until one of them fell into the trap, giving them access to the internal systems of the website.
Let’s remember that the social network is considered niche, but during the last year it has had the spotlight several times, for adding more users. In that sense, their data indicates that approximately 1.7 billion visits to the online forum were measured in June 2021, making it one of the most visited websites online.
And by 2021, the company said it was valued at more than ten billion dollars, after raising an additional $410 million in funding, In addition, he expects a final round of about 300 million dollars, with which the company could complete 700 million dollars.
Although the social network has become popular in recent years, at the beginning of 2021, it was questioned for hosting groups considered “extreme right”.
With this data theft, Reddit joins other social networks affected by cybercriminals such as Uber, Google, Yahoo and LinkedIn, which many criminals are reported to be using ‘phishing’ on these sites and steal their users’ data.
In conclusion, this problem is one of the main concerns of businessmen around the world, given all this, and as a great issue that is in the eye of leaders.
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