Sophos has published a new sectoral survey report, The State of Ransomware in Retail 2022, which found that retail had the second highest rate of ransomware attacks last year of all sectors surveyed after the media, leisure, and entertainment industry. Globally, 77% of retail organisations surveyed were hit—a 75% increaseRead More…
Acronis mid-year cyberthreats report reveals that ransomeware is the number one threat to large and medium-sized businesses, including government organizations, and the damages caused by ransomware attacks can go beyond $30 billion by 2023 worldwide.Read More…
Fortinet, a provider in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced the latest semiannual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report. “Cyber adversaries are advancing their playbooks to thwart defense and scale their criminal affiliate networks,” says Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist & VP Global Threat Intelligence, FortiGuard Labs. “TheyRead More…
The LAPSUS$ group, widely reported to consist of teenagers, exploded onto the cyber scene late last year and has become one of the most talked about and notorious online extortion groups after successfully breaching major companies like Microsoft, Samsung, Ubisoft and Okta. A deep dive into the operations of theRead More…
Tuhina Goel, Director of Product Marketing at Nutanix explain businesses need is a cyber-security and Ransomware protection plan that is integrated with the storage system to detect, prevent, recover, and analyze cyber-attacks so that structured and unstructured data is protected, no matter where the data resides.Read More…
By Rick Vanover, Senior Director, Product Strategy, Veeam Ransomware attacks continue to grow in frequency. In the past 12 months, In the past 12 months, 76% of organizations have been affected by ransomware attacks, constituting a 15% YoY rise, according to Veeam’s Data Protection Trends Report 2022. As well as beingRead More…
Trellix, the cybersecurity company delivering extended detection and response (XDR), has released The Threat Report: Summer 2022, analysing cybersecurity trends and attack methods from the first quarter of 2022. The report also features research from Trellix Threat Labs into connected healthcare and access control systems. It also includes analysis ofRead More…
Sophos has published a new sectoral survey report, The State of Ransomware in Education 2022. The findings reveal that education institutions – both higher and lower education – are increasingly being hit with ransomware, with 60% suffering attacks in 2021 compared to 44% in 2020. Education institutions faced the highestRead More…
