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A CYBER SECURITY
CHRONICLE PART IIT WO
The 1980s are remembered fondly for many things: music television channels that actually showed music videos, “The Brat Pack,” and some of the most iconic video games of all time—just to name a few. But the same decade also introduced the world to the first PC virus, and the sophistication level of cyberthreats has evolved exponentially ever since. In part one of this infographic series, you learned that evolving cyberthreats are making passwords obsolete. Part two shows you how rapidly these threats can advance.
THE EVOLUTION OF
CYBERTHREATS 1986 “THE BRAIN”
1989
The Alvi brothers, computer programmers from Pakistan, create what is now considered the first PC virus.1
THE “MORRIS” WORM 23-year-old Robert Tappan Morris disables 6,000 computers with what is widely considered the first computer worm.2
1992
The number of known PC viruses eclipses 1,000.3
1999-2000 “MELISSA” AND “ILOVEYOU” VIRUSES
2003
In back-to-back years, two large-scale social engineering attacks affect tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of computers,
CREDIT CARDS
respectively, and serve as a wake up call to
Credit cards become the next target of cyber
organizations around the globe. 4 5
attacks when a string of major retailers falls victim to a massive data breach that compromised the payment card information of at least 45 million individuals.6
MODERN CYBER ATTACKS (2005-PRESENT)
AMERICAN BUSINESS HACK (2005)
Spanning eight years, hacktivist groups in Russia and Ukraine steal 160 million credit and debit card numbers, as well as 800,000 bank accounts from U.S. banks and companies.7
2007
446 data breaches in the United States expose approximately 130 million records.8
$3.4 MILLION
2009
The average organizational cost of a data breach is $3.4 million and the most expensive data breach costs one
AVG COST OF A
organization more than $31 million.9
DATA BREACH
THE RISE OF "HACKTIVISIM” (2011) The rise of "hacktivisim"—58% of data theft is tied to hackers claiming to carry out cyber attacks on behalf
58%
of their political or social beliefs.10
“THE YEAR OF THE BREACH” (2014) A string of data breaches on some of the largest
and most well-known organizations in the world results in 800 million stolen accounts.
“THE YEAR OF THE BREACH 2.0” (2015) More than 707.5 million records are compromised in 2015—that's an average of 1.9 million records every day! 11
2016 During the first six months of this year, 974 worldwide companies reported data breaches resulting in more
554 MILLION COMPROMISED RECORDS
than 554 million compromised records.12
In order to keep up with the rapid sophistication of cyberthreats and stay ahead of savvy hackers, modern organizations need to level up their security.
To learn more about how Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) can enhance passwords today and lay the groundwork for more sophisticated security
