While 2020 was not a typical year for average users or organizations, threat actors and threats thrived and even evolved in light of the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus. The consumer threat landscape report for 2020 is meant as an overview of the evolution of threats year-over-year and on a quarterly basis, in an attempt to highlight trends that will likely spill into 2021.
From how ransomware has evolved both globally and in specific countries, to Android threats, IoT and spam, Bitdefender consumer telemetry aims to capture a snapshot of what threats targeted the average user and how to best protect against them