JPMorgan Chase reported this past week that bank deals have a massive onslaught of hackers trying to commit system breaches on a daily basis. "There are people trying to hack into JPMorgan Chase 45 billion times a day," she said, calling those occurrences "2x what it was last year." Chase said the bank, which puts $15 billion toward cyber security and technology each year, has thwarted the daily efforts of such hackers.
These comments, at Davos 2024, coincidentally came in conjunction of an Allianz Commercial report releasing a Risk Barometer paper identifying cyber incidents as 2024’s "top business risk." Allianz said 36% of the over 3,000 customer businesses, industry trade organizations, risk management professionals and others around the world that participated in its survey pointed to cyber incidents as the risk weighing on them the most for 2024.[1]
That share of respondents who said cyber incidents posed the biggest threat rose by two percentage points from 2023, when it also came in No. 1, the report said. Other years it placed most highly out of 10 types of risks included 2022 and 2020. The insurance firm considered things like data breaches, IT disruptions, ransomware attacks and fines as cyber incidents.
Internet Hacking - For cyber incidents, 59% of companies and other survey respondents said risks of data breaches caused the most concern for them, according to the report.
Allianz found that "cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure and physical assets" and "increases in malware/ransomware attacks" tied behind data breaches. Those were cited by 53% of respondents as the "most concerning" cyber risks, according to the data. "Cyber criminals are exploring ways to use new technology such as generative artificial intelligence to automate and accelerate attacks, creating more effective malware and phishing," Allianz Commercial Global Head of Cyber said in a press release. "The growing number of incidents caused by poor cyber security, in mobile devices in particular, a shortage of millions of cyber security professionals, and the threats facing smaller companies because of their reliance on IT outsourcing are also expected to drive cyber activity in 2024."
Hacker computer monitors - In 2023, companies such as Comcast, Clorox, Mr. Cooper and VF Corp experienced cyber incidents of varying impacts, with some experiencing temporary disruptions in operations.
Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas, both hotel and casino companies, dealt with cyberattacks. The hotel and casino companies both disclosed their respective attacks in September of last year.
Aside from cyber incidents, business interruptions and natural catastrophes, at 31% and 26% respectively, were also major concerns for businesses in 2024, according to Allianz. Its top-five also included regulation/legislation changes and macroeconomic developments.
Red Sky Alliance has long reported on international bank hacking: https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/alfa-bank-hit-on-ru-bank
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[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/risk-cyber-incidents-weigh-heavily-businesses-2024-report-finds
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