Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Cybercrime.
Blackberry says cyber criminals are becoming better at finding and targeting vulnerable organizations. This week, Blackberry released their 2021 BlackBerry Threat Report. The report details a sharp increase in cyberthreats facing organizations since the onset of COVID-19. The research shows ... Read more
3 years ago
Crowdstrike announced on Thursday that it is paying about $400 million to buy the Dell-backed log analytics company. Humio’s product is software that processes security data in real-time to catch cybercriminal acts as they happen. Crowdstrike will use Humio’s product to upgrade its security ... Read more
3 years ago
Last year, more than $1 trillion was spent on cybersecurity or to pay for damages caused by cyberattacks. This amount represents about 1% of the world’s GDP. The report comes from Atlas VPN, which says that a majority of the money ($945 billion) was spent on Cybersecurity incidents. The remaining... Read more
3 years ago
Security researchers have revealed that a ransom DDoS campaign is underway, targeting organizations all over the world. A cybersecurity alert by Radware indicates that the first wave of these attacks started in August. However, the DDoS campaigns were aimed at companies again, in the last week of D... Read more
3 years ago
The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has published a warning that financial institutes must be alert to criminal activities targeting Covid-19 vaccines and their distribution. Examples of criminal activities are the sale of illegal vaccines. These include vaccines that have not y... Read more
3 years ago
Forecast indicates that remote and cloud-based systems will be aggressively targeted in the coming year Trend Micro this week issued its predictions for cybersecurity trends in 2021. In its forecast, the company predicts that cybercriminals will target home networks, remote working software and ... Read more
3 years ago
Cybercrime now costs the global economy about a trillion dollars, according to a new McAfee report. The report is titled "The Hidden Cost of Cybercrime," and in 2018, it said that the cost was an estimated $600 billion. Since then, the new figures show that the costs have risen by 50%. In additi... Read more
3 years ago
The British football club Manchester United has been hit by a cyber attack. It appears to be a ransomware attack, but it is not clear whether the attackers managed to steal anything. The football club posted a message on its website, simply saying that a cyber attack has taken place and it has t... Read more
3 years ago
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is getting more sophisticated and intricate while becoming cheaper and easier to carry out. This trend is fuelled by the sheer amount of insecure internet-connected devices (specifically IoT products) that cybercriminals take advantage of. DDoS attacks aren't... Read more
3 years ago
A collection of more than 23,000 hacked databases has temporarily appeared on a forum. The collection came from the hacker website Cit0day, which recently went offline. Cit0day was a website where cybercriminals could buy access to the hacked databases and then abuse the stolen personal data. Th... Read more
3 years ago
