Weekly global cyberattacks climbed to an all-time peak in the second quarter this year, alluding to a Check Point Research (CPR) digression that there is “no single silver-bullet technology” for attack prevention.

A recent CPR blog focused on Q2 2022 cyber attacks showed that an average of 1,200 weekly attacks per organization occurred worldwide in the second quarter, a 32% increase year over year. 

Ransomware attacks impacted an unprecedented number of organizations today and are the number one threat, reported CPR. In this year’s second quarter, one out of 40 organizations were impacted by ransomware —  a 59% increase year over year compared to 2021’s second-quarter numbers, where researchers pinned attacks on one out of 64 organizations. 

In the government and military sector alone, weekly ransomware attacks impacted one out of 24 organizations, accelerating a 135% year-over-year change. The sector also saw a significant increase of 44% in cyber attacks in general with 1,600 average weekly attacks, according to CPR.

The most attacked industry of this year’s quarter was the education and research sector, which averaged more than 2,300 attacks per organization weekly, according to CPR. The industry saw an increase of over 50% in attacks compared to this time last year. 

When eyeing specific continents, Africa saw the highest volume of attacks — almost 2,000 attacks were reported per organization weekly. CPR noted a year-over-year increase hit just over 20%. 

However, attacks are creeping at an alarming rate in Latin America, which wins victims of the largest increase in attacks this quarter — a stifling 43% uptick in attacks, and one out of 23 organizations impacted weekly, according to CPR. 

Threat actors and attack techniques are constantly evolving, and “there is no single silver-bullet technology that can protect from all threats and all threat vectors,” CPR noted.

However, there are critical areas companies must keep a constant eye on rather than lying dormant — many of these revolve around maintaining security hygiene, such as the Principle of Least Privilege, which reduces attack surfaces by keeping user and software privileges to a minimum.

The most proactive security solution floating around today is threat intelligence, according to CPR. Keeping threat intelligence up to date while sharing threat intelligence across the industry lets organizations stay on top of threat trends and patch vulnerabilities, and possibly bypass future attacks.