Researchers at Check Point found that in the last 3 months, there was a surge in hacker interest in topics related to education, research and going back to school. The USA witnessed an increase in DDOS attacks, while Asia faced an increase of vulnerability exploits. The main increase came from DDos attacks (a category of malicious cyber-attacks employed to make an online service, network resource or host machine unavailable to its intended users on the Internet). The average number of weekly attacks per organization in the academic sector in July-August increased by 24% from 638 to 793 in the previous two months.”]