coronavirus

Leaders need to find ways to increase internal audit capacity without increasing budgets
A study of 299 internal audit organizations showed that the function faced both declining budgets and a significantly expanded workload in 2020, according to Gartner. “For …

The war against the virus also fueling a war against digital fraud
TransUnion’s latest analysis of global online fraud trends found that since the COVID-19 pandemic began, fraudsters are increasing their rate of digital schemes against …

Attack volume surged by 48% during the first year of the pandemic
A Mimecast report details how threat actors targeted remote workers during the first year of the pandemic, March 2020 – February 2021. The report describes how attack volume …

Total combined fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020
While total combined fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020, identity fraud scams accounted for $43 billion of that cost. Traditional identity fraud losses totaled $13 …

Remote workers admit to playing a significant part in increasing their company’s cybersecurity risks
The COVID-19 generation of remote workers are admitting to playing a significant part in increasing the cybersecurity risks facing their companies. An Opinium research shows …

Data breaches and network outages: A real and growing cost for the healthcare industry
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Infoblox report reveals major challenges the healthcare industry faced as IT workers scrambled to secure protected health information …

Phishers’ perfect targets: Employees getting back to the office
Phishers have been exploiting people’s fear and curiosity regarding breakthroughs and general news related to the COVID-19 pandemic from the very start, and will …

Compliance department spending plateaued in 2020
A study of 117 organizations in the second half of 2020 showed that compliance department spending was projected to plateau in 2020 after several years of rapid growth, …

Data protection challenges hinder digital transformation initiatives
Data protection challenges are undermining organizations’ abilities to execute digital transformation (DX) initiatives globally, according to the Veeam report, which has found …

3 in 4 companies have experienced account takeover attacks in the last year
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud migration and digital transformation amongst 88% of companies and that 71% of Microsoft Office 365 deployments have suffered an …

DDoS attacks surge as cybercriminals take advantage of the pandemic
DDoS attacks reached a record high during the pandemic as cybercriminals launched new and increasingly complex attacks, a Link11 report reveals. The analysis showed a boom in …

Threat actors thriving on the fear and uncertainty of remote workforces
The pandemic’s work-from-home reality resulted in an unprecedented change for organizations as they fought to defend exponentially greater attack surfaces from cybercriminals …
Featured news
Resources
Don't miss
- North Korean hackers spotted using ClickFix tactic to deliver malware
- Sandworm APT’s initial access subgroup hits organizations accross the globe
- PAN-OS authentication bypass hole plugged, PoC is public (CVE-2025-0108)
- The UK’s secret iCloud backdoor request: A dangerous step toward Orwellian mass surveillance
- Over 3 million Fortune 500 employee accounts compromised since 2022