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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 – What it is and why we should be aware

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 – What it is and why we should be aware madhav Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:33 The inception of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004 came at a critical juncture in our technological history. As we are well and truly in the digital-first age, the need for robust cybersecurity measures is glaringly evident.

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Why Small and Medium Sized Businesses Need More Than Just an AntiVirus Solution

Security Boulevard

In 2023, small businesses experienced a 424-percent increase in breaches, and half of all SMBs reported suffering at least one attack. Basic solutions like antivirus deployments are certainly still important, but they are reactionary measures. In this new environment, the bare minimum is no longer good enough.

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Security Roundup August 2023

BH Consulting

Shedding the light of the law on cybercrime methods Today’s cybercrime landscape involves criminals operating across borders as business-like syndicates, says Europol. The agency’s ninth Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 report gives a law enforcement perspective on current cybercrime techniques.

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New ransomware trends in 2023

SecureList

Although early 2023 saw a slight decline in the number of ransomware attacks, they were more sophisticated and better targeted. A few months after last year’s blog post came out, we stumbled across a new multi-platform ransomware family, which targeted both Linux and Windows. In 2022, Kaspersky solutions detected over 74.2M

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A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group

Krebs on Security

According to a September 20, 2023 joint advisory from the FBI and the U.S. ” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

We polled our experts from the GReAT team and have gathered a small number of key insights about what APT actors are likely to focus on in 2023. Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor.

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Dark web threats and dark market predictions for 2024

SecureList

In 2023, for instance, there was a significant rise in posts offering login credentials and passwords for various personal and work accounts. To be more specific, in 2023, the volume of malware log files containing compromised user data and posted for free on the dark web surged by almost 30% compared to 2022.

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