RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Kaspersky released another of its cybersecurity research reports this week, showing a considerable growth in attacks that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) suffer in Brazil.
Attempts to steal passwords have increased the most, growing 143% over the past year in the country.
The information is relative to the number of blocks of each type of attack that the security software reports to Kaspersky.
According to the company, the Trojan-PSW (password stealing ware) presented this growth of more than double from last year to here.
It puts Brazil in second place for the highest number of such attacks, behind only Mexico.
Two other attacks against SMBs that also grew here were internet contamination and brute force attacks on remote access to company networks.
The first refers to the contamination of large and popular websites with malicious software, infecting computers by accessing them to gain access to the device’s information.
2.6 million such blocks were registered in Brazil from January to April 2022, placing the country first in the Latin American ranking for this type of attack.
Brute-force attacks on the desktop remote control are programs that automatically test passwords until they manage to break into a company’s network.
Remote access has become popular with the number of people working from home, so this attack has grown a lot.
According to Kaspersky, there were 20 million attempts recorded in the period, putting Brazil not only at the top of the ranking of countries that suffer most from this type of attack but a distant lead, with four times more attempts than second place, which is Colombia.
With information from TecMundo