With a global surge of 75% in ransomware attacks, Trend Micro solutions protected organizations from 63 billion threats in H1 2022 Trend Micro predicts that ransomware groups will increasingly target Linux servers and embedded systems over the coming years. The latest Trend Micro 2022 Midyear Roundup Report recorded a double-digit year-on-year (YoY) increase in attacks […]
Trellix has released The Threat Report: November 2022 from its Advanced Research Center, home to the world’s most elite security researchers and intelligence experts. The latest report analyses cybersecurity trends from the third quarter of 2022. “Threat actors continued to make headlines in Q3 2022 and at Trellix, we delivered a new, powerful resource to […]
According to Dragos, Ransomware continues to be one of the most threatening financial and operational risks to industrial organizations worldwide A new report from Dragos, examining threats to industrial systems, found that ransomware continues to be one of the most threatening financial and operational risks to industrial organizations worldwide during the third quarter of 2022. […]
To mark Antimalware Day this year, Juan Manuel Harán from ESET rounds up some of the most pressing issues for cybersecurity now and in the future
Trend Micro has predicted that ransomware groups will increasingly target Linux servers and embedded systems over the coming years. The latest Trend Micro 2022 Midyear Roundup Report recorded a double-digit year-on-year (YoY) increase in attacks on these systems in H1 2022. Detection of attacks from ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) surged in the first half of 2022. Major […]
Ransomware remains a top cyber risk for organizations globally while business email compromise incidents are on the rise and will increase further in the ‘deep fake’ era. At the same time, the war in Ukraine and wider geopolitical tensions are a major concern as hostilities could spill over into cyber space and cause targeted attacks […]
Ivanti has announced the results of the Ransomware Index Report Q2-Q3 2022 that it conducted with Cyber Security Works, a Certifying Numbering Authority (CNA), and Cyware. The report revealed that ransomware has grown by 466% since 2019, and is increasingly being used as a precursor to physical war as seen in the Russia conflict in […]
Over half of surveyed UAE organisations have paid a ransom in response to a ransomware attack According to a new research from YouGov, commissioned by Palo Alto Networks, 62% of organisations surveyed in the UAE who had fallen victim to a ransomware attack have paid a ransom in the past two years. In addition, 59% […]
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% increase from 2020. This is also […]
Ransomware payments hit new records in 2021 as cybercriminals increasingly turned to Dark Web “leak sites” where they pressured victims to pay up by threatening to release sensitive data, according to research released today from Unit 42 by Palo Alto Networks.
