Phishing gangs mounting high-ticket BEC attacks, average loss now $80,000
Companies are losing money to criminals who are launching Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks as a more remunerative line of business than retail-accounts phishing, APWG …
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The global cost of cybercrime per minute to reach $11.4 million by 2021
Cybercrime costs organizations $24.7, YOY increase of more than $2 every minute, a RiskIQ report reveals. It will also have a per-minute global cost of $11.4 million by 2021, …
91% of cybersecurity pros want stricter internet measures to tackle misinformation
There’s a growing unease amongst the cybersecurity community around the recent rise in misinformation and fake domains, Neustar reveals. 48% of cybersecurity …
Researchers develop AI technique to protect medical devices from anomalous instructions
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a new AI technique that will protect medical devices from malicious operating instructions in a cyberattack as …
Researchers aim to improve code patching in embedded systems
Three Purdue University researchers and their teammates at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have received a DARPA …
Most organizations have no Active Directory cyber disaster recovery plan
Although 97% of organizations said that Active Directory (AD) is mission-critical, more than half never actually tested their AD cyber disaster recovery process or do not have …
New attack vectors make securing virtual companies even more challenging
As organizations are settling into long-term remote working, new attack vectors for opportunistic cyberattackers—and new challenges for network administrators have been …
Brand impersonation is a go-to tactic for attackers, especially for credential phishing and BEC attacks
Trends in BEC and email security during Q2 2020 included a peaking and plateauing of COVID-19-themed email attacks, an increase in BEC attack volume and acceleration of …
Disrupting a power grid with cheap equipment hidden in a coffee cup
Cyber-physical systems security researchers at the University of California, Irvine can disrupt the functioning of a power grid using about $50 worth of equipment tucked …
62% of blue teams have difficulty stopping red teams during adversary simulation exercises
New Exabeam research shows that 62 percent of blue teams have difficulty stopping red teams during adversary simulation exercises. Respondents named threat detection, incident …
Telehealth is the future of healthcare, but how secure is it?
54 percent of Americans have opted for virtual visits during pandemic, a CynergisTek survey reveals. Of those, more than 70 percent of respondents plan to continue to use …
Publicly reported data breaches down 52%, exposed records way up!
Although the number of publicly reported data breaches stands at its lowest in five years, the number of records exposed is more than four times higher than any previously …