In 2024, cybercriminals have shifted focus from personal data to stealing company credentials and trade secrets. One in six listings (16%) on the dark web featuring stolen government data involves organizations in the Middle East. This insight comes from Positive Technologies’ first study on data breaches in Russia, the Middle East, and globally. Their experts reviewed over 1,000 darkRead More…
Worldwide end-user spending on information security is projected to total $212 billion in 2025, an increase of 15.1% from 2024, according to a new forecast from Gartner. In 2024, global information security end-user spending is estimated to reach $183.9 billion. “The continued heightened threat environment, cloud movement and talent crunchRead More…
With several billion dollars in inflows, scams that involve cryptocurrency are mounting in 2024 and are one of the largest areas of crypto-related illicit activity year to date (YTD). This is according to new research by Chainalysis, the blockchain data company, which also found that 43% of the total YTDRead More…
Between April and July 2024, Microsoft observed Iranian state-sponsored threat actor Peach Sandstorm deploying a new custom multi-stage backdoor, which we named Tickler. Tickler has been used in attacks against targets in the satellite, communications equipment, oil and gas,Read More…
Akamai announced it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2024 report. Forrester evaluated 11 total vendors in the microsegmentation space based on 23 criteria grouped by current offering, strategy, and market presence.Read More…
Cato Networks recently published the Q2 2024 Cato CTRL SASE Threat Report, which provides insights into the threat landscape across several key areas: hacking communities and the dark web, enterprise security and network security.Read More…
Fortra announced the availability of new Core, Advanced, and Elite bundles for Email Security. These new bundles bring together multiple Fortra products and services to provide comprehensive protection across the entire email threat lifecycle.Read More…
Kaspersky has uncovered seven vulnerabilities, two of which could allow arbitrary code execution, in the widely used open-source projects Suricata and FreeRDP during pre-release penetration testing of company’s products. Kaspersky’s security experts have found seven vulnerabilities in the widely used open-source projects Suricata and FreeRDP. Two of these vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-32664Read More…
