Apr 15, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The second half of 2020 proved particularly tough for cybersecurity teams everywhere, with wave after wave of cyberattacks hitting organisations from all directions. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity firm McAfee, which states that an average...
Apr 14, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Best practices for security have not kept pace with IT teams still treating mobile security separately to overall enterprise security practices, according to US wireless provider Verizon, which warns that mobile devices are the biggest enterprise security threat, but...
Apr 13, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
You might still be reeling from the news that personal information from 533 million Facebook accounts has been made freely available online. But now there’s another huge batch of people’s data floating around the web — including data from LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned...
Apr 12, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Fileless malware and cryptominer attack rates grew by nearly 900% and 25% respectively, while unique ransomware payloads plummeted by 48% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to WatchGuard. Q4 2020 also brought a 41% increase in encrypted malware detections over the...
Apr 11, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ransomware attacks, where criminals encrypt all of the data on a target network and demand payment in exchange for the decryption key, has grown more dangerous than ever before, a new report from cybersecurity pros F-Secure has claimed. The company’s Attack Landscape...
Apr 10, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
A threat group called “Golden Chickens” is targeting professionals on LinkedIn with fake job offers with the intent to infect respondents with malware. As detailed by cybersecurity firm eSentire Inc., the campaign is “spear-phishing” victims with a sophisticated...
Apr 9, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hackers are using a new, malleable malicious document builder to run their criminal schemes, according to Intel 471 research published Tuesday. The document builder, known as EtterSilent, has been advertised in a Russian cybercrime forum and comes in two versions,...
Apr 8, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ransomware attacks have gone from being a nuisance to becoming a significant financial burden, as well as a major threat to our critical infrastructure. Since 2019 attackers have since strengthened their capabilities. We’re now seeing thousands of variants, with names...
Apr 7, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cyber criminals are sending over three billion emails a day as part of phishing attacks designed to look like they come from trusted senders. By spoofing the sender identity used in the ‘from’ field in messages, cyber criminals attempt to lure potential...
Apr 6, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
SANS announced the release of a report which analyzes the data of over 1,500 security awareness professionals from around the world to benchmark how organizations are managing human risk and provides data-driven action items to mature awareness programs. Through...
