Destructive Attacks Sample Clauses

Destructive Attacks. Apart from targeting companies and government agencies for information theft, cybercriminals in recent years also seem to have regained interest in acting with the sole aim of disrupting services, causing data loss – not necessarily following a theft – or even producing persistent, visible, physical damage to infrastructures and facilities, thus hampering an organization's activities with attacks from which they might never be able to recover. Such Figure 32 – Percentages of organizations operating in the Americas which suffered a potentially destructive attack in 2014, divided by sector destructive attacks receive much less attention by the press, as the details and consequences are often not disclosed by the victims, who would rather try to quickly regain control and salvage their businesses than make public statements admitting to having lost part of their assets due to an attack of this type. Nevertheless, recent surveys and research confirm that this type of attack is becoming increasingly common, especially targeting government agencies, energy and communications firms [204]. Notable, documented incidents belonging to this category [197] include those involving Sony Pictures Entertainment.67