New research from F5 Labs has found that DDoS attacks came back with a vengeance last year after several years of decline. The F5 Labs’ 2024 DDoS Attack Trends report recorded 2,127 attacks in 2023, which is a 112% rise compared to 1,003 in 2022.Read More…
ESET has released its latest Threat Report, which summarizes threat landscape trends seen in ESET telemetry and from the perspective of both ESET threat detection and research experts, from December 2023 through May 2024.Read More…
A new study from Juniper Research has found the value of fraudulent banking and money transfer transactions is anticipated to increase 153% over the next five years, up from $19 billion in 2024. Fraudsters’ use of AI is putting an additional strain on banks. In turn, however, banks are becoming increasinglyRead More…
Tenable has disclosed that its Tenable Cloud Research Team has discovered a high severity vulnerability in Azure that affects more than 10 Azure services, including Azure Application Insights, Azure DevOps, Azure Machine Learning, Azure API Management and Azure Logic Apps. Microsoft does not plan to issueRead More…
Help AG has launched the 2024 edition of its annual State of the Market Report. Distinguished by its singular focus on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the report serves as the definitive guidebook on cybersecurity in the region.Read More…
The Entrust Cybersecurity Institute today released survey findings on the State of Zero Trust adoption and encryption in 2024, revealing that the Middle East market is leading the charge in global Zero Trust strategy implementation (70% in UAE, and 70% in KSA), compared to global markets (62%).Read More…
Global law enforcement recently announced Operation Endgame, a widespread effort to disrupt malware and botnet infrastructure and identify the alleged individuals associated with the activity. In a press release, Europol called it the “largest ever operation against botnets, which play a major role in the deployment of ransomware.”Read More…
Proofpoint researchers recently identified a cluster of activity conducting malicious email campaigns using piano-themed messages to lure people into advance fee fraud (AFF) scams. The campaigns have occurred since at least January 2024, and are ongoing. Most of the messages target students and faculty at colleges and universitiesRead More…
