Ransomware is up and victims are paying
Sophos released a survey and review of real-world ransomware experiences in a report which shows that 66% of organizations surveyed were hit with ransomware in 2021, up from …
Cybercriminals deliver IRS tax scams and phishing campaigns by mimicking government vendors
Cybercriminals are leveraging advanced tactics in their phishing-kits granting them a high delivery success rate of spoofed e-mails which contain malicious attachments right …
Post-pandemic priorities for security leaders
Info-Tech Research Group has published its annual report on the priorities for security leaders. The report combines insights from the 2022 security priorities survey and …
Are businesses ready to implement cloud-native development?
OutSystems released findings from a global survey of IT leaders and developers gauging the benefits and challenges of cloud-native development, with results highlighting stark …
Nimbuspwn bugs allow attackers to gain root privileges on some Linux machines (CVE-2022-29799, CVE-2022-29800)
Microsoft has unearthed two security vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-29799, CVE-2022-29800) in the networkd-dispatcher daemon that may be exploited by attackers to gain root on many …
The hierarchy of cybersecurity needs: Why EASM is essential to any zero-trust architecture
Zero trust was born out of the critical need to modernize outdated IT architecture, which assumes that all assets within an organization – and attached to it – should be …
Cyber-attack defense: CIS Benchmarks + CDM + MITRE ATT&CK
Victims lost $6.9 billion to cybercrime in 2021, according to FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. To take a bite out of that number, the Center for Internet Security …
Multi-vector DDoS attacks on the rise, attackers indiscriminate and persistent
Comcast Business published results from a report which provides an overview of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack landscape, trends experienced by its customers …
Siloed technology management increases operational blind spots and cyber risk
Oomnitza revealed a snapshot survey, conducted by Gatepoint Research, which found that siloed technology management is increasing operational blind spots and cyber risk. While …
eBook: A new breed of endpoint protection
Our workforce has rapidly evolved, with millions of employees permanently working from home or transitioning to a hybrid setting. Unfortunately for cybersecurity, hackers …
Email encryption flexibility builds customer trust and business revenue
Intentional and unintentional data breaches in emails are not unusual, and since they are the backbone of communication, organizations need to keep their data protected. …
Meteoric attack deploys Quantum ransomware in mere hours
A group wielding the Quantum Locker ransomware is hitting targets in a blitzkrieg-like manner, going from intial compromise to domain-wide deployment and execution in under …
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