The highest share of cybercrime attacks was in the form of telnet attacks, amounting to 0.77 percent. A telnet attack is a widely adopted technique among criminal botnet operators, used to send a syn-flood attack against a target, using the telnet software running on thousands of compromised machines. At the same time, the share of attacks by cryptominers reached 0.14 percent.
Share of cybercrime attacks in Romania in 2021, by cyberattack category*
* Financial malware attacks – malicious programs created to steal a user’s money from the bank account on their computer system
Telnet attacks by originating country (based on the number of unique IP addresses of devices used in the attacks) – a technique used by cybercriminals to get people to download a variety of malware types
Users attacked by cryptominers – software that’s developed to take over a user’s computer and use its resources to mine currency (without the user’s permission)
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