The number of cybersecurity attacks events measured from January through June was twelve times higher when compared with the same period in 2018, an increase largely driven by IoT-related traffic, according to the Attack Landscape H1 2019 by F-Secure. In the first half of 2019, F-Secure's global network of honeypots measured more than triple the attack traffic of the previous period, to a total of over 2.9 billion events.
"Our honeypots are decoy servers that we’ve set up in countries around the world to gauge trends and patterns in what’s going on in the global cyber attack landscape. We’ve configured them to look like actual servers, inviting the type of traffic that hits actual servers. Honeypots are highly effective tools for collecting information on the methods and target selection processes used by modern attackers. They can also be a good source of malware samples and shell scripts," says the report.