cyberattack
Organizations seldom prioritize cybersecurity over business outcomes
55% of large companies are not effectively stopping cyberattacks, finding and fixing breaches quickly, or reducing the impact of breaches, according to a research study from …
Top 10 ways attackers are increasing pressure on their ransomware victims to pay
Sophos researchers have detailed how ransomware attackers are implementing a wide range of ruthless pressure tactics to persuade victims to pay the ransom. Their research is …
Surge in cyber attacks confirms the need for zero trust security
Zscaler announced the release of a report that tracked and analyzed over 20 billion threats blocked over HTTPS, a protocol originally designed for secure communication over …
How the rise in identity crimes and cyberattacks impacts small businesses
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has published a report on the impacts of identity crimes and cyberattacks on small businesses. There are 42 million solopreneurs, …
Ransomware attacks increased 148% in Q3 2021, showing no sign of slowing
SonicWall recorded a 148% increase in global ransomware attacks through the third quarter (Q3) of 2021. With 470 million ransomware attacks logged by the company this year to …
Active Directory control: How adversaries score even bigger goals via attack paths
Microsoft Active Directory and Azure Active Directory are directory services products used for identity and access management at most major enterprises all over the world. All …
Cybersecurity threat landscape growing in sophistication, complexity and impact
The 9th edition of the ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) report released by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity highlights the surge in cybercriminality motivated by …
40% of organizations suffered a cloud-based data breach in the past 12 months
Despite increasing cyberattacks targeting data in the cloud, 83% of businesses are still failing to encrypt half of the sensitive data they store in the cloud, raising even …
The antidote to brand impersonation attacks is awareness
In this interview with Help Net Security, Dirk Jan Koekkoek, VP, DMARC at Mimecast, talks about the growing threat of brand impersonation attacks, their increasing level of …
Three OT security lessons learned from 2021’s biggest cyber incidents
What do an oil pipeline, a water treatment plant, and a railway system have in common? They each rely on operational technology (OT) environments, and they were all victims of …
Employers must balance productivity and collaboration tools with security
Americans are more concerned about cybersecurity than ever before, according to Unisys. The survey found that concerns around internet security (including computer viruses and …
Despite large investments in security tools, organizations are not confident they can stop data exfiltration
An Osterman Research survey of 255 cybersecurity professionals (CIOs, IT managers, CISOs and security managers), exploring attitudes and perceptions surrounding data …
Featured news
Resources
Don't miss
- Unpatched Zimbra servers are falling to CVE-2026-73570 attacks
- AI supply chain risk is showing up in developer workflows first
- HOL Guard: Open-source antivirus for AI agents
- The cybercrime supply chain has five stages, each with a price
- Suspected Iran-linked attack knocked UK power plant offline for days