Compare cybersecurity risks in the U.S. and another country.
With much of our personal data being shared and stored online, the need for different countries to address cybersecurity risks is of the utmost importance. Many elements go into making sure a country is secure as we need to protect the infrastructure.
In the U.S., phishing, ransomware and crypto-jacking are among the top cyber security threats/risks and trends for 2021. Phishing is the unauthorized practice of sending emails masked as a refutable organization or company. Cyber criminals will use phishing to gain access to personal information such as passwords. This is most frequent in the U.S because other countries such as, China, partake in censorship. Ransomware is a form of malware. This is a software designed to encrypt files making them unusable and useless. A lot of poorer countries in Eastern Europe don’t experience ransomware as a cyber security risk. Crypto-jacking refers to a form of cyber security risk that involves criminals opting to take advantage of one’s computing power to mine crypto currency. The motive for this is more than often financial profit or gain. In late 2017 we saw a surge of crypto-jacking as a result of the value of cryptocurrencies rising. This has been seen as a cyber security risks globally by varying countries.
Compared to the U.S., Tajikistan is the least secure country according to a study. “Tajikistan was the worst-scoring country for the % of users attacked by banking malware (4.7%), % of computers facing at least one local malware attack (41.16%), and % of attacks by cryptominers (5.7%). It also scored poorly for % of users attacked by ransomware trojans (1.35%). But, it was also one of the better-scoring countries for several categories, including % of users attacked via web sources (0.03%), % of telnet attacks by originating country (0.01%), % of spam emails by originating country (0.01%), and % share of countries targeted by malicious mailings (0.01%). Zero users were attacked by mobile ransomware trojans and no SSH-based attacks originated from Tajikistan.” Comparing the U.S., it resulted in our country having one of the lowest scores for Global Cyber Security Index.