Tag: threats

September 20, 2021

Trend Micro announced that it blocked 40.9 billion email threats, malicious files, and malicious URLs for customers in the first half of 2021, a 47% year-on-year increase. Ransomware remains primary threat in the first half of the year as cybercriminals […]

September 9, 2021

One of the first internet memes was born when The New Yorker published the now iconic cartoon captioned, “On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” Today we might update that to: “On the phone, no one knows you’re […]

August 26, 2021

Peterborough, New Hampshire—a small town of 6,000 residents—just experienced a devastating cyberattack, which resulted in taxpayer money amounting to $2.3 million being transferred to foreign internet scam artists. That is approximately 15% of the town’s annual budget. Adding a wrench […]

August 26, 2021

When it comes to business communication, email is still king. Cybercriminals are aware of this fact, and they’re constantly perfecting their attacks to successfully evade the built-in security defenses of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. In this interview with Help […]

August 26, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed enormous stress on information security professionals. A threat landscape that was already growing more complex by the minute now presents an even more fearsome challenge, as cybersecurity budgets are strained, and millions of workers have […]

August 19, 2021

Overall, the first half of 2021 shows a 22 percent increase in the volume of phishing attacks over the same time period last year, PhishLabs reveals. Notably, however, phishing volume in June dipped dramatically for the first time in six […]

August 18, 2021

90% of enterprises are yet to achieve their digital-first goals with 49% admitting that cybersecurity is the top most priority for their business, a Tata Communications report reveals. It also brings to light, 45% of enterprises lost productivity during the […]

August 16, 2021

A survey from SecZetta revealed 83% of respondents agree that because organizations increasingly rely on contractors, freelancers, and other third party workers, their data systems have become more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Further, 88% of people say organizations and government entities […]

August 16, 2021

President Biden’s executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity requires agency heads to develop a plan to implement a zero-trust architecture to effectively mitigate cyber risk. Increasing and enhancing an organization’s cybersecurity posture should also be a corporate and countrywide […]

August 12, 2021

While IT security decision makers often consider cyberattacks a serious concern and are allocating a significant share of their IT budget to address their cybersecurity challenges, data breaches have still been uncomfortably commonplace, an INTRUSION survey reveals. Cybersecurity IT budget […]

August 9, 2021

The risk of cyberattacks has increased in the last year. According to a Trend Micro survey, 80% of global organizations report they are likely to experience a data breach that impacts customer data in the next 12 months. The findings […]

August 3, 2021

Crime-as-a-Service (CaaS) is the practice of experienced cybercriminals selling access to the tools and knowledge needed to execute cybercrime – in particular, it’s often used to create phishing attacks. For hackers, phishing is one of the easiest ways to steal […]

July 28, 2021

According to a new Sophos Home survey, forty-five percent of consumers say they’re more at risk of being hit by an attack now than they were before the pandemic, and 61% believe their household could be the target of an […]

July 21, 2021

Traditional ransomware defenses are failing, with 54% of all victims having anti-phishing training and 49% having perimeter defenses in place at the time of attack, according to a Claudian survey of 200 IT decision makers whose organizations experienced a ransomware […]

July 20, 2021

Incognia announced a report which highlights results from their most recent study focusing on authentication and friction at login and the password reset process. The study was conducted to provide banking, financial services, and investing/trading mobile apps with insights on […]

July 20, 2021

Zscaler released a study examining the state of IoT devices left on corporate networks during a time when businesses were forced to move to a remote working environment. The report analyzed over 575 million device transactions and 300,000 IoT-specific malware […]

July 19, 2021

Half of US organizations are not effective at countering phishing and ransomware threats, Osterman Research research reveals. The findings come from a study compiled from interviews with 130 cybersecurity professionals in mid-sized and large organizations. “Phishing and ransomware were already […]

July 19, 2021

By now, most of us are aware that smartphones are powerful computers and should be treated as such. It’s not a coincidence that most of the security tips given to smartphone users – such as refraining from opening suspicious links […]

July 19, 2021

It seems like only yesterday that we were all reading up on what the implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) would mean for businesses operating in (or handling data collection with organizations in) the EU. For […]

June 28, 2021

According to a report released by Honeywell, USB threats that can severely impact business operations increased significantly during a disruptive year when the usage of removable media and network connectivity also grew. Data from the report indicates that 37% of […]