Trend Micro has released its annual mid-year roundup report, which reveals COVID-19 related threats as the single largest type of threat in the first half of the year. In just six months, Trend Micro blocked 8.8 million COVID-19 related threats, nearly 92% of which were spam delivered via emails.Read More…
Sophos, today published a report, “Maze Attackers Adopt Ragnar Locker Virtual Machine Technique,” which shows how attackers tried three different ways to execute Maze ransomware during a single attack while demanding a $15 million ransom. On the third try, the Maze operators attempted to leverage virtual machines (VM) to spreadRead More…
Palo Alto Networks today announced their new research, commissioned from Vanson Bourne, which shows that 72% of IT decision-makers in the Middle East, which covered 100 respondents in UAE and Saudi Arabia, are completely confident that they have full visibility of all IoT devices connected to their organization’s network, whileRead More…
Users on the internet rely on domain names to find brands, services, professionals and personal websites. Cybercriminals take advantage of the essential role that domain names play on the internet by registering names that appear related to existing domains or brands, with the intent of profiting from user mistakes. ThisRead More…
On July 17, 2020, Proofpoint researchers notified the return of threat actor TA542 and the Emotet malware. Before TA542’s return on July 17, 2020, it were last seen on February 7, 2020. This 161-day hiatus was the longest known break for this threat actor group. TA542 email campaigns are theRead More…
Fortinet has unveiled the 2020 Remote Workforce Cybersecurity Report. The report investigates the cybersecurity challenges that organizations faced as a result of the dramatic shift to telework early this year and the planned investments to secure remote work in 2020 and beyond. This report is based on aRead More…
Infoblox and Zogby Analytics unveil research into the ongoing IT challenges posed by the COVID-19 shutdown. Half a year into the shutdown, companies are still playing catch up to optimize their remote work experience. Based on 1,077 responses from the US, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, China, Japan, Australia,Read More…
Kaspersky analysis has revealed that phishing attacks are becoming increasingly more targeted. A number of new tricks have also been found – from HR dismissal emails to attacks disguised as delivery notifications. As a result of such tendencies, security solutions have detected 2,578,501 phishing attacksRead More…
