Malware & Threats

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cyber losses are increasing in frequency and severity

Cyber attacks have increased in number and severity since the onset of the pandemic. The changes organizations implemented to facilitate remote work have given cybercriminals new opportunities to launch campaigns exploiting mass uncertainty and fear. Ransomware attack severity increases In fact, since the beginning of COVID-19, Coalition observed a 47% increase in the severity of…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

he threat intelligence landscape has vastly changed over the years. While the term was originally used to refer to malware Indicators of Compromise (IOC) – lists of known malware signatures and the servers those malware communicate with, a method to identify infected devices within corporate networks – as time went by vendors have broadly expanded…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Cybercriminals have been spotted using HTML/CSS and Unicode tricks to bypass tools meant to block malicious emails, marking a new twist in phishing techniques, security researchers report. Attackers are continuously testing enterprise security systems and exploring new ways to get through. Some rely on hidden text and zero-font attacks, in which they put invisible characters…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

In the last few years, we’ve seen ample evidence of how cyberattacks on critical infrastructure can be leveraged by nation-states and other powerful adversaries as weapons in geopolitical conflicts. The attacks on the Ukraine power grid and several other incidents demonstrated a show of power and how a country’s infrastructure can be disrupted. The indiscriminate…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Intelligence

A ransomware infection can have a significant financial impact on an organization. American digital security and data backup firm Datto found that ransomware is costing businesses more than $75 billion a year. Part of that financial impact results from downtime costs. Govtech also revealed that businesses lost an average of $8,500 per hour as the…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CSO

Most security leaders are unlikely to have drones on the list of threats they need to defend against on the cyber or physical security front. Drones can, however, introduce new risks that organizations need to recognize and address proactively, say security experts, even if an organization isn’t using them. A growing number of organizations have…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

A new study incorporates analysis of anonymized data from more than 5 million unmanaged, IoT, and IoMT devices in Ordr customer deployments across a variety of verticals including healthcare, life sciences, retail and manufacturing, between June 2019 and June 2020. Unmanaged devices Researchers identified real-world risks across a diverse set of connected devices, reaffirming the…