Number of users in Armenia subjected to web attacks in 2020 decreased by almost 7%

YEREVAN, February 18. /ARKA/. The number of users in Armenia subjected to web attacks in 2020 decreased by almost 7% from the previous year, according to a study by Kaspersky Lab. According to it,

some 10.50% of users in Armenia in 2020 were attacked via the Internet (web attacks). A year earlier, this figure was 17.34%. 

In Georgia the share of users subjected to web attacks decreased from 14.83% in 2019 to 10.49% in 2020,  in Azerbaijan - from 21.12 to 10.95%.

The company's experts note that the decline is due to the increased use of reliable security solutions and the spread of cyber literacy among users.

In 2020, Tunisia (18.27%), Algeria (16.42%) and Mongolia (15.94%) were the most affected countries by web attacks.

In 2020, 10.18% of computers of Internet users in the world were subjected to a Malware-class web attack at least once, up from 19.8% a year earlier.

Experts point out that a robust antivirus with web module protects users from downloading malicious objects from a malicious/infected web page, deliberately created by hackers.

They are also trying to hack more legitimate resources and inject malicious scripts and software for various purposes - hidden cryptocurrency miners, ransomware downloaders, software to steal personal and bank data. Web resources with content created by users (for example, forums), can also be infected. –0--

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13:33 02/18/2021