Security News The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2024

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2024 was a big year for cybersecurity, with significant cyberattacks, data breaches, new threat groups emerging, and, of course, zero-day vulnerabilities.

Some stories, though, were more impactful or popular with our 31 million readers than others.

Below are fourteen of what BleepingComputer believes are the most impactful cybersecurity stories of 2024, with a summary of each. These stories are in no particular order.

14. Internet Archive hacked

13. Bad CrowdStrike updates crashed 8.5 million Wndows devices

12. Kaspersky banned in the US—software automatically replaced with UltraAV

11. Russian state-sponsored hackers breached Microsoft's corporate email

10. National Public data breach exposed your Social Security Number

9. Attacks on edge networking devices run rampant

8. CDK Global ransomware attacks takes down the car dealership industry

7. The SnowFlake data theft attacks

6. The North Korean IT Worker scheme

5. The UnitedHealth Change HealthCare ransomware attack

4. LockBit disrupted

3. Windows 11 Recall: A privacy nightmare?

2. The 2024 Telecom attacks

1. The rise of Infostealers

 

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