More than two million cases of data leaks were reported last year. Slovakia ended up in the worldwide ranking of stolen e-mail accounts and domains in 34th place. The light target for hackers was especially the slogans made up of simple number combinations, first names or terms such as password or Figure1. This stems from CRIF – Slovak Credit Bureau.
Attacks controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) have also become a dangerous threat. According to a global scale analysis, Deepfake has been fraud that focused on companies around the world. They also resonated fake Deepfake videos and voices that abused the identity of well -known personalities and attracted people to fraudulent investment schemes.
Last year’s most vulnerable data were passwords, email addresses, usernames, phone numbers, names and surnames. “For cyberbots, the combinations of these data are literally a gold mine because they specify the profile of a potential victim. The more data about a person they know, the easier they can target fraud”Said the company.
The most commonly abused combinations last year were email with password, user name with password and phone number with name and surname. While the abuse of the combination of e-mail and password dropped by 5 %last year, the other two combinations increased by more than 30 %year-on-year.
The analysis revealed that many users continue to use simple and predictable passwords or combinations of characters, thereby taking their accounts and identity to high risk. The most commonly used passwords on the global scale include number combinations 123456, 123456789, 12345678, 12345 and 111111, whose hacking lasts less than a second.
In the global ranking of countries with the most common theft of e-mail addresses together with slogans, Slovakia was placed last year in 34th place. These are emails with the “.sk” location domain. Compared to 2023, Slovakia improved, because it was in 17th place.
On the Dark Web, which cyberbows use to exchange stolen personal data obtained from phishing, smishing or other types of hacker attacks, there are also numbers of credit cards, CVV codes and expiration dates. “Europe has a significant year -on -year offense, up to 94 %, and became a continent with the highest degree of illegal exchange of credit card data”Said Crif. Slovakia finished 87.
