Cybercrooks targeting UK organisations started 2020 strong only for attacks to wither away by Christmas

Compromising every web-connected server and service you can find gets tiring after a while – and by the end of 2021 internet criminals targeting British companies were as fatigued as the rest of us, according to Bitdefender. In its 2020 Consumer Threat Landscape report, Bitdefender reckoned that most malware and ransomware …

[Dippywood]

Already?

"Compromising every web-connected server and service you can find gets tiring after a while – and by the end of 2021 internet criminals targeting British companies were as fatigued as the rest of us"

I know that lockdown has distorted our sense of time, but the end of 2021? I missed it - how can that be?

[Dan 55]

Re: Already?

I dunno about you but it certainly feels like 2022 to me.

[steelpillow]

Why can't Reg hacks use grammar checkers? "Whither away" looks like a line from Shakespeare.

Remember that old song, "Ain't no sunshine when you're wrong" by Bill Whithers?

[Anonymous Coward]

The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer-Night's Dream - take your pick

[diodesign]

Why can't Reg hacks use grammar checkers?

Cos we mostly type into the web-based publishing system that does spell checking (which is a bit hard to see in all the HTML) though not grammar. It's fixed.

Don't forget to email [e-mail] if you spot anything wrong, ta.

C.

[steelpillow]

Re: Why can't Reg hacks use grammar checkers?

Thanks. I'll try and remember the corrections bit.

[Doctor Syntax]

Maybe they'd made their annual quota early.

Are these numbers of all attacks or just the ones that succeeded? If the latter it could be that at last some businesses are starting to take security seriously.