Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, this time of year brings as much cybercrime as it does holiday cheer. According to our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud Threat Report , on average, 18.8% of consumer PCs in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America were infected during 2020. Do I really need antivirus? In a word, yes.

Antivirus 125

Antivirus Identity Theft Adware Internet 125

Webroot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

2020 was a year of immense change. In our 2020 Webroot Threat Report , our security experts made a series of predictions related to the threat landscape. Cybercrime is no longer a punishment-free crime.”. Milbourne also remarked last year that, “Deepfakes are going to become a major threat.

Ransomware 112

Ransomware Backups Threat Reports Small Business 112

SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

share in 2020 to the second most common in 2021 with 12.2%. Emotet (9.3%), described by Europol as “the world’s most dangerous malware”, underwent a drop of five percentage points between 2020 and 2021.This The mass change in cybercriminals’ objectives and methods seen in 2020 continued in 2021.

Banking 101

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Malware 101

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

In 2020 groups were demanding as much as $30 million to unlock a victim’s files and systems. Reducing Human Error Security Threats with Remote Workforce. Cybercrime to cost over $10 Trillion by 2025. FBI Internet Crime Report 2020: Cybercrime Skyrocketed, with Email Compromise Accounting for 43% of Losses.

Energy and Utilities 122

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Banking Hacking 122

Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

According to the CrowdStrike 2020 Global Threat Report, the telecommunications and government sectors were the most targeted by the threat actors. China-linked cyber espionage groups increasingly targeted organizations in the telecommunications industry in 2019.

Telecommunications 86

Telecommunications Mobile Spyware Advertising 86

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, this is the second time that the FBI first shares IoC related to RagnarLocker operation, the FBI first became aware of this threat in April 2020. Use multi-factor authentication with strong passwords, including for remote access services.

Ransomware 83

Ransomware Financial Services Passwords VPN 83

Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

An impersonation attack recently made headlines with the 2020 Twitter/Bitcoin scam , in which 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to steal bitcoin. To learn more about hacker personas and strategies to protect against their various attacks, check out our eBook, Hacker Personas: A Deeper Look Into Cybercrime.

Scams 108

Scams Phishing Firewall Social Engineering 108

Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2021

According to the 2020 Insider Threat Report , contractors, service providers, and temporary workers pose the greatest risk to 50% of organizations. These attacks require physical access as someone must physically insert the rogue device, and in this case, that “someone” was an insider; more specifically, an outsourced worker.

Social Engineering 125

Social Engineering Healthcare Engineering Hacking 125

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

One of the suspected FinFly Web servers was active for more than a year between October 2019 and December 2020. As it turned out, it was active for a very short time around September 2020 on a host that appears to have been impersonating the popular Mail.ru The activities peaked in November 2020, but are still ongoing.

Malware 142

Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 142

Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

Avaya introduced Avaya Cloud Office in 2020 and replaced IP Office. According to the fourth installment of the annual insider threats report released by Proofpoint and the Ponemon Institute, insider threat incidents have increased in frequency and cost. This card had to be plugged into a computer to activate the license.

B2B 64

B2B Accountability Software Risk 64

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

McAfee researchers addressed the shift in ransomware strategy this week in their McAfee Threats Report: June 2021. Likewise, circa 2019/2020, we saw the introduction of leak sites. The federal government has become increasingly involved in pushing back against cybercrime, particularly ransomware. Leak Sites.

Ransomware 124

Ransomware Backups Encryption Malware 124

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 threat report, presented at CyberCrimeCon in Singapore, the size of the carding market grew by 33 percent and amounted to USD 879.7 SecurityAffairs – payment card details , cybercrime). The source of this data compromise remains unknown.”. Pierluigi Paganini.

Marketing 60

Marketing Banking eCommerce Advertising 60

McAfee

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The talent shortage , coupled with the increasing volume of threats and the changing cybercrime landscape, presents a problem which is only getting worse. As detailed in our August Threat Report , our Advanced Threat Research discovered that new ransomware samples had increased 118% from Q1 to Q2. It’s just math.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Ransomware Cybersecurity Manufacturing 52

Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

McKinsey & Company raised the alarm in 2020. Then, they reported 87% of organisations worldwide were already facing a skill gap or would face a severe talent shortage by 2025. Just like yesterday, all tech is hackable and cybercriminals penetrate 93% of company networks in less than 2-days. Could it get any worse? Sadly, yes.

CISO 130

CISO Mobile Technology Risk 130

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

This report shines a spotlight on the financial cyberthreat landscape in 2022. It presents a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 ), which provide an overview of the latest trends across the threat landscape.

Banking 76

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Mobile 76

SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Based on our telemetry, the January 2021 indicators do not necessarily represent new intrusions or new malware samples, as the detections were relatively old (between 2018 and 2020), and the Explosive RAT samples did not contain significant modifications. We discovered a previously unknown backdoor in active use since at least December 2020.

Malware 142

Malware Ransomware Spyware Encryption 142