After a targeted attack, large businesses lost an average of $695,000, while small and medium businesses lost almost $32,000.
Kaspersky Lab experts have studied the cyberattacks that Russian companies have been subjected to since the beginning of the year. The collected statistics helped to identify the most dangerous type of data hacking for businessmen. The greatest damage was caused by targeted attacks.
The experts explained that these are pre-planned attacks, when attackers “purposefully attack a specific company”, having previously conducted reconnaissance and selected tools for the attack. On average, after such an attack, large businesses lost $695,000, while small and medium businesses lost $32,000 this year.
In addition, the damage to Russian business in 2021 was caused by “the illegal use of IT resources by employees.” Kaspersky Lab experts also attributed such cases to cyber incidents. The losses caused by them reached nearly $510 thousand for large companies and $30 thousand for small ones.
A little less business suffered in cases when employees did not comply with the internal information security policy. In such incidents, according to the study, the damage for a large organization was $465 thousand, and for a small one — almost $30 thousand.
DDoS attacks, according to Kaspersky Lab, in turn, deprived large businesses of $463 thousand, and owners of small companies — more than $28 thousand.
At the end of May, Kaspersky Lab announced that the new attacks differ from cyberattacks using encryption viruses in that the scammers do not use specially created malware, but the standard BitLocker Drive Encryption technology included in the Windows operating system. Several Russian companies have been hit by ransomware attacks that have blocked access to corporate data and demanded a ransom.
