As virtual footprints of organizations have continued to expand multi-fold during the coronavirus pandemic, instances of carding, data exposure, and hacktivism have escalated to become the highest-rated digital risk categories in 2020, impacting almost all major industry verticals in the Middle East region, the first-ever Digital Risk Protection report byRead More…
With an eye toward the future, FireEye has compiled a list of cybersecurity expectations for the coming year. In the report, A Global Reset: Cyber Security Predictions 2021, it tackles the following topics: remote work and other impacts of the global pandemic, ransomware, nation-state activity, cloud security and security validation.Read More…
The fourth edition of the Phishing and Fraud Report released by F5 Labs found that phishing incidents rose 220% during the height of the global pandemic compared to the yearly average.Read More…
Fortinet today unveiled predictions from the FortiGuard Labs global threat intelligence and research team about the threat landscape for 2021 and beyond.Read More…
Cisco has published two new global research studies that reveal an increase in consumer concern about data sharing, data protection and data security during the pandemic and the challenges security management face supporting employees and customers in our remote-first world. The reports also highlight opportunities to become more resilient byRead More…
Sophos has uncovered attackers using DLL side-loading to execute malicious code and install backdoors in the networks of targeted organizations. A report published today, “A New APT uses DLL Side-loads to Killl Someone,” outlines the discovery of four different DLL side-loading scenarios, which all share the same program database pathRead More…
SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers today unveiled third-quarter threat intelligence collected by the company’s more than 1 million global security sensors. The findings highlight cybercriminal’s growing use of ransomware, encrypted threats and attacks leveraging non-standard ports, while overall malware volume declined for the third consecutive quarter.Read More…
McAfee today released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: November 2020, examining cybercriminal activity related to the malware and the evolution of cyber threats in Q2 2020. During this period, McAfee saw an average of 419 new threats per minute as overall new malware samples grew by 11.5%. A significant proliferationRead More…
