Check Point Research (CPR) today reports that as we enter Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, globally, there are 40% more attacks weekly on organizations in 2021 compared to 2020. In the region, UAE has seen a 29% increase in weekly cyber-attacks on organizations this year, whereas Saudi Arabia has shownRead More…
Qualys, Inc., a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, has announced the availability of its Ransomware Risk Assessment Service to provide companies with visibility into their ransomware exposure and automate the patching and configuration changes needed to reduce risk immediately.Read More…
The psychology of influencing individuals to feel compelled to do specific behaviours- also known as social engineering is one of the most used cyberattack strategies. In the world of cybersecurity, social engineering is nefarious — and the realm of phishing attack perpetrators. Bad actors utilize a variety of psychological tacticsRead More…
Mandiant, the leader in dynamic cyber defense and response, announced two new, first-of-their-kind SaaS offerings – Active Breach & Intel Monitoring and Ransomware Defense Validation. The new products bolster the multi-vendor Extended Detection and Response (XDR) capabilities of the Mandiant Advantage platform by accelerating operational use of Mandiant’s leading up-to-the-minute threatRead More…
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, announced findings from its survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Financial Services 2021,” that show how mid-sized financial services organizations worldwide spent more than $2 million on average recovering from a ransomware attack.Read More…
Derek Manky, Chief, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs writes about cybercrime being a business and how to take action against it. We are seeing an increase in effective and destructive cyberattacks affecting thousands of organizations in a single incident creating an important inflection point for theRead More…
McAfee Enterprise today released its Advanced Threat Research Report: October 2021, examining cybercriminal activity related to ransomware and cloud threats in the second quarter of 2021. With the shift to a more flexible pandemic workforce and the highly publicized Colonial Pipeline attack,Read More…
ESET released today its T2 2021 Threat Report highlighting several concerning trends, including increasingly aggressive ransomware tactics, intensifying brute-force attacks, and deceptive phishing campaigns targeting people working from home who have gotten used to performing many administrative tasks remotely.Read More…
