IBM report reveals healthcare’s cybersecurity gap continues to grow
While businesses are increasing their cybersecurity investment, the cost and seriousness of breaches continue to climb. IBM's latest data breach study sheds light on why there is a widening disparity between company cybersecurity investment and data breach cost.
2022 is on track to set a new wor... Read more
Zscaler finds malware in Play Store apps with 300,000+ downloads
Security company Zscaler found three notorious malware variants in dozens of Google Play Store apps. The apps were downloaded more than 300,000 times in total.
Most users expect the Google Play Store to be safe. In reality, cybercriminals abuse the platform to spread malware. Researchers at Zsc... Read more
Akamai repels enormous DDoS attack on European target
Akamai repelled one of the largest DDoS attacks in European history. Cybercriminals attacked a company with 660 million packets per second (Mpps) and 854 Gbps of data during a 14-hour peak.
According to Akamai, the target company suffered a constant DDoS attack for 30 days. Traffic peaked on 21 ... Read more
Fortinet provides cloud security with FortiCNP
Fortinet recently introduced FortiCNP. The solution allows security specialists to bring together data from multiple cloud environments and optimize security processes. The tool works closely with Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection, a solution recently launched by AWS.
Fortinet introduces Fort... Read more
DSIRF is behind spyware targeting law firms and banks, Microsoft says
According to Microsoft, Austria-based firm DSIRF is the main perpetrator behind the spyware targeting law firms, banks and strategic institutions in at least three countries.
On July 27, Microsoft security researchers claimed that Austria-based DSIRF is behind a digital spyware program used to ... Read more
Group-IB tracks down massive investment fraud network
Security company Group-IB discovered a massive network of investment fraudsters.
The fraudsters used more than 10,000 web domains to dupe victims and pretend to be investors. Victims deposit money through a web application, receive updates on 'earnings' and never see a return.
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‘Ransomware strikes one out of 40 organizations per week’
According to Check Point, ransomware strikes one out of 40 organizations per week. In its latest report, the organization states that ransomware incidents increased 59 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2022.
CPR attributes the rise to increased remote working, geopolitical tension... Read more
SonicWall records 2.8 billion malware attacks in six months
The number of malware attacks rose to 2.8 billion in the past six months. Ransomware attacks on European organizations grew while the United States faced less.
SonicWall examined the state of malware between January 2022 and June 2022. The security company used 1.1 million seniors in 215 countri... Read more
‘Low-code and no-code are popular but risky’
Though popular, low-code and no-code platforms have serious security risks, writes columnist and security expert Mark Nunnikhoven on website SD Times.
Nunnikhoven works for Lacework, a DevOps, cloud and Kubernetes service provider. According to Nunnikhoven, low-code and no-code platforms have s... Read more
‘European Commission staff phones compromised by Pegasus spyware’
Apple informed top EU officials that their iPhones may have been infiltrated by NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.
The European Union has found evidence that smartphones used by some of its staff were compromised by NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, the bloc's top justice official said in a letter seen by ... Read more