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The cybersecurity of industrial companies remains low, potential damage can be severe
Positive Technologies released a research that examines information security risks present in industrial companies, the second-most targeted sector by cybercriminals in 2020. …

Increase in credential phishing and brute force attacks causing financial and reputational damage
Abnormal Security released a report which examines the escalating adverse impact of socially-engineered and never-seen-before email attacks, and other advanced email …

58% of IT leaders worried their business could become a target of rising nation state attacks
HP Wolf Security released the findings of a global survey of 1,100 IT decision makers (ITDMs), examining their concerns around rising nation state attacks. 72% of respondents …

If encryption is so good at protecting data, why do so many businesses succumb to cyberattacks?
Cybercriminals use increasingly complex deception methods, and cybersecurity can be unfamiliar, unintuitive, or inconvenient to operate, recent Mimecast research reveals. No …

Device complexity leaving schools at heightened risk of ransomware attacks
Absolute Software announced a research revealing the significant management and security challenges faced by K-12 education IT teams with the rise in digital learning and …

Collaboration is the key to protecting critical national infrastructure
Concern around protecting critical national infrastructure (CNI) is growing. Following several high-profile attacks and growing tensions around state sponsored cyber activity, …

Fraudsters increasingly focusing on digital accounts, whether existing or fake ones
Fraudsters are increasingly focusing on digital accounts, whether that is by compromising existing user accounts or creating fake new accounts to commit fraud, an Arkose Labs …

Cyber intrusion activity volume jumped 125% in H1 2021
The volume of cyber intrusion activity globally jumped 125% in the first half of 2021 compared with the same period last year, according to the Cyber Investigations, Forensics …

Cybercriminals are manipulating reality to reshape the modern threat landscape
VMware released a report which analyzes how cybercriminals are manipulating reality to reshape the modern threat landscape. The report found a drastic rise in destructive …

With Crime-as-a-Service, anyone can be an attacker
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 …

Ransom demands reaching $1.2M, smaller companies increasingly targeted
Ransom demands have grown substantially over the past year, smaller companies are increasingly targeted, and cyber criminals continue to take advantage of dislocations in how …

Where does the SME fit into a supply chain attack?
“No business is an island, entire of itself” (with apologies to John Donne). Businesses have connections to other businesses, who supply them with goods, and whom they supply …
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