The cybercrime threat scenario in 2017

A variety of cybersecurity threats are appearing and increasing considerably the percentage of digital attacks each year. Currently, cryptocurrency mining, which constitutes an alternative source of income for cybercriminals, has been increasing unexpectedly.

Cybercriminals are acquiring new skills to discover new ways to affect companies by methods harder to be tracked; among these, there are attacks on mobile devices, which represent an increasingly striking target and which can be more easily affected as long as operating systems are not updated. In the following infographic we indicate the most relevant attacks occurred during 2017, as well as the solutions that exist to eradicate them.