Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A host of threats continue to put enterprise data at risk. In fact, according to the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report , more than 80% of organizations reported at least one breach in the last year, while ransomware attacks grew more frequent, with 28% of organizations reported experiencing an attack in 2024, compared to 22% in 2023.

DDOS 62

DDOS Encryption Data breaches Identity Theft 62

Trend Micro

JUNE 26, 2025

To do this, you can run organizational surveys about security knowledge, conduct a baseline phishing simulation, and evaluate previous incidents. You can use a dedicated security awareness and training offering that combines modern phishing simulations with risk-based training modules.

Security Awareness 73

Security Awareness Cyber Risk Risk Phishing 73

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Expect to see AI-enabled phishing campaigns, deepfake scams, and automated attacks grow in complexity. Identity theft will evolve: Stolen identities will fuel new fraud schemes, like creating crypto accounts in victims names. Secure digital identities: Broader adoption of services like Clear and ID.me

Cybersecurity 123

Cybersecurity CISO Risk Government 123

Trend Micro

JUNE 10, 2025

Each team can independently sign off on an image, ensuring accountability and reducing deployment risk. Implement an enforcement-first approach Enforce policy rules to block unauthorized or unsigned images from being deployed, preventing supply chain threats and reducing the attack surface of your production environment.

Cyber Risk 52

Cyber Risk Risk Network Security Insurance 52

Trend Micro

JULY 2, 2025

More generally, organisations should consider updating security strategy to account for the elevated threat from AI-powered attacks. Continuously monitoring, assessing, and updating AI models to check for and remediate vulnerabilities, and improve accuracy, performance and reliability.

Cyber Risk 91

Cyber Risk Risk Cyber threats Artificial Intelligence 91

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The Threat Report Portugal: H2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from July to December, H2, 2022. This makes it a reliable, trustworthy, continuously updated source, focused on the threats targeting Portuguese citizens. The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware.

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Threat Reports Phishing Malware Banking 98

Webroot

APRIL 4, 2022

If your business falls within these industries or if you’re concerned your personal PC could be prone to infection, read the complete section on malware in the 2022 BrightCloud® Threat Report. High-risk URLs are phishing for your data in the most benign of locations. To make matters worse, almost 66% of them involved phishing.

Threat Reports 122

Threat Reports Ransomware Cyber threats Phishing 122

SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Researchers on Thursday reported that despite a 50% increase in mobile device management (MDM) adoption during the past year, average quarterly exposure to phishing attacks on mobile devices in the financial sector rose by 125% – and malware and app risk exposure increased by more than five times.

Mobile 126

Mobile Phishing Banking Financial Services 126

SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This report aims to offer thorough insights into the financial cyberthreat landscape in 2021. The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape. Key findings.

Banking 136

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Malware 136

Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2025

Phishing-Resistant MFA: Why FIDO is Essential madhav Thu, 05/08/2025 - 04:47 Phishing attacks are one of the most pervasive and insidious threats, with businesses facing increasingly sophisticated and convincing attacks that exploit human error.

Phishing 58

Phishing Authentication Passwords Social Engineering 58

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 28, 2024

In 2016, following the Democratic National Convention (DNC) hacks, Buzzfeed News reported that cybercriminals had set up fake domains to impersonate legitimate political websites , aiming to trick users into donating to fraudulent causes. ActsBlue Phishing Site Now, this tactic seems to be active again. The domain actsblue[.]com

Phishing 63

Phishing DNS Malware Accountability 63

SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

Even though, in 2020, we have seen ever more sophisticated cyberattacks, the overall statistics look encouraging: the number of users hit by computer and mobile malware declines, so does financial phishing. This report aims to shed a light on more details of financial cyberthreats in 2020. Financial phishing. Key findings.

Banking 145

Banking Phishing Malware Mobile 145

SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2023

that traditionally falls during our business day, and those who participate in viewing and playing in their "office pools" are susceptible to a variety of security threats, especially those dreaded phishing lures. Mobile phishing attacks are on the rise. By 2021, 75% of phishing sites were specifically targeting mobile users.

Phishing 98

Phishing Mobile Passwords Accountability 98

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

The cost of ransomware attacks accounts for 21 percent of the overall expenses, while the cost of malicious insider accounts for 15 percent. 29% of breaches involved use of stolen credentials , 32% of them were the result of phishing attacks. The cost of malware attacks is now an average of US$2. Source Accenture.

Cybercrime 145

Cybercrime Small Business Data breaches Mobile 145

Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2021

Kaseya obtained a universal decryptor for REvil ransomware attack Over 80 US Municipalities Sensitive Information, Including Residents Personal Data, Left Vulnerable in Massive Data Breach Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2021 What Is An Identity and Access Management So-lution and How Can Businesses Benefit From It?

Spyware 130

Spyware Data breaches Government Ransomware 130

Webroot

MAY 25, 2021

Yet, faced with modern cyber threats, that seems like a pretty impossible goal, particularly as many attacks are designed to operate under the radar, evading detection for weeks or months at a time. Phishing and business email compromise are still top security concerns , but they’re surprisingly preventable at the end user level.

Phishing 144

Phishing DNS Backups Security Awareness 144

Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

As we navigate through 2024, the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, bringing new challenges for both businesses and individual consumers. The latest OpenText Threat Report provides insight into these changes, offering vital insights that help us prepare and protect ourselves against emerging threats.

Antivirus 126

Antivirus Cyber threats Phishing Education 126

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. This is why a multi-layered approach that can block phishing sites (including HTTPS) in real time, is key for staying safe. Who is the Impersonator?

Scams 119

Scams Phishing Firewall Social Engineering 119

SecureWorld News

MAY 18, 2020

Complexity is playing a part in misconfigurations, and these are some of the most common according to the study: 37%: Over-privileged accounts. And over half of organizations revealed that employees with privileged cloud accounts have had those credentials compromised by a spear phishing attack.

Threat Reports 98

Threat Reports Accountability Cybersecurity Phishing 98

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One of the most outstanding examples involves $2 million ‘s worth of CS:GO skins stolen from a user’s account , which means that losses can get truly grave. Game over: cybercriminals targeting gamers’ accounts and money.

Mobile 128

Mobile Passwords Accountability Software 128

Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

According to our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud Threat Report , on average, 18.8% Antivirus software offers threat protection by securing all of your music files, photo galleries and important documents from being destroyed by malicious programs. Our real-time anti-phishing also blocks bad sites. Do I really need antivirus?

Antivirus 134

Antivirus Identity Theft Adware Internet 134

Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud ® Threat Report , we found overall infection rates to be rising fastest in the healthcare, non-profit and arts/entertainment/recreation industries. In fact, the median ransom demand in 2021, according to advanced findings from our upcoming threat report, was $70,000.

Ransomware 127

Ransomware Small Business Backups Threat Reports 127

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Encryption is where data, such as your address or bank account details, are scrambled using a specific code to make them illegible. We are living in an age of data breaches – our 2023 Data Threat Report shows that more than a third of organizations globally experienced a data breach in the last 12 months.

Security Awareness 129

Security Awareness Passwords Authentication Encryption 129

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This report states that 59% of organizations fail to maintain strict user account lifecycle management, leaving credentials that are no longer needed in the environment that can be compromised. It is this type of failure in credential management that bad actors leverage to gain access to accounts, and data.

Phishing 134

Phishing Technology IoT Manufacturing 134

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

The 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report found that all types of cyberattacks increased in 2021. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 billion malware attacks were identified by the report. CEOs who say that cybersecurity is the biggest threat to short-term growth have doubled in the past year.

Backups 145

Backups Ransomware Firewall Malware 145

Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2022

Unfaithful HackerOne employee steals bug reports to claim additional bounties Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22 Tens of Jenkins plugins are affected by zero-day vulnerabilities Microsoft: Raspberry Robin worm already infected hundreds of networks. Upgrade it now!

Cybercrime 98

Cybercrime Data breaches Ransomware Healthcare 98

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

Computers and Electronics 98

Computers and Electronics Backups Cybercrime Marketing 98

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“Although FBI and CISA do not currently have any specific threat reporting indicating a cyberattack will occur over the upcoming Labor Day holiday, malicious cyber actors have launched serious ransomware attacks during other holidays and weekends in 2021.” ” reads the advisory published by CISA.

Ransomware 136

Ransomware Risk Encryption Passwords 136

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

For example, an important finding from the Conti leak was the common reliance of ransomware threat actors on Active Directory for lateral movement within the network using privileged credentials. The alert detailed cyber threats which can lead to ransomware, data theft and disruption of healthcare services. Transportation sector.

Healthcare 126

Healthcare Ransomware Authentication Threat Reports 126

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Two of them regard the current user and the rest are for the root account. Employees should be trained against various social engineering and phishing attacks, as it’s a classic vector used by cybercriminals to deploy malware. Advanced configuration hardenings are strongly recommended.

Malware 117

Malware Social Engineering System Administration Antivirus 117

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 341 appeared first on Security Affairs.

Banking 82

Banking Small Business Data breaches Firmware 82

Digital Shadows

APRIL 8, 2025

As highlighted in our 2025 Annual Cyber-Threat Report , insecure external remote services are the most effective entry point for attackers. Administrator Account Brute-Forced via RDP: In January 2025, GreyMatter flagged a suspicious file, System Informer, installed on a customers system. MSHTA Abuse for Defense Evasion Jumps 7.8%

Cyber Attacks 66

Cyber Attacks Phishing Ransomware Accountability 66

Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

Devices with proprietary operating systems account for 34% of what consumers own and 96% of all detected vulnerabilities. Cybercriminals will likely reuse everything that proved successful during 2020 and users will also have to adapt to better identify and mitigate threats. Spam – quality over quantity.

Cybercrime 116

Cybercrime Ransomware Cyber threats Surveillance 116

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

A new Cloudflare phishing report notes that most of the 1 billion brand impersonation emails the company detected “passed” SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email authentication protocols. At the same time, an organization is also quite likely to fall for business email compromise and phishing attacks from their vendors.

Authentication 90

Authentication Phishing Encryption Marketing 90

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Use Strong Passwords and a Password Manager Sadly, less than 40% of all online users use a distinct password for each account, according to the National Cybersecurity Alliance 2023 Oh Behave! Recognize and Report Phishing According to the Thales 2024 Data Threat Report , phishing is the second fastest-growing attack.

Cybersecurity 74

Cybersecurity Password Management Passwords Phishing 74

eSecurity Planet

MAY 1, 2025

AI phishing coach: This tool replaces traditional, static training with real-time, personalized coaching. RSA targets passwordless and help desk threats RSA unveiled a new enterprise-ready passwordless platform aimed at thwarting advanced identity attacks, especially those that attempt to bypass help desks using social engineering.

Cybersecurity 67

Cybersecurity Mobile Phishing Artificial Intelligence 67

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

AI phishing coach: This tool replaces traditional, static training with real-time, personalized coaching. RSA targets passwordless and help desk threats RSA unveiled a new enterprise-ready passwordless platform aimed at thwarting advanced identity attacks, especially those that attempt to bypass help desks using social engineering.

Cybersecurity 62

Cybersecurity Mobile Artificial Intelligence Phishing 62