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Top 9 Cybersecurity Challenges SMEs Currently Face

Responsible Cyber

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. Many employees do not know (or care enough) to protect themselves online, and this can put businesses at risk. DDoS Attacks.

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What is Malware?

Identity IQ

Gaining control of multiple computers to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against other networks. Adware is software designed to serve advertisements to you, either within your web browser or in other programs. Adware isn’t always bad. Some free apps, for instance, include adware as a way to make revenue from ads.

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IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

SecureList

To evaluate and compare the risk of being infected by banking Trojans and ATM/POS malware worldwide, for each country we calculated the share of users of Kaspersky products who faced this threat during the reporting period as a percentage of all users of our products in that country. Attack geography. 7.90%) maintained its popularity.

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OpenSSH trojan campaign targets Linux systems and IoT devices

Malwarebytes

Poorly configured Linux and Internet of Things (IoT) devices are at risk of compromise from a cryptojacking campaign , according to researchers at Microsoft. Years ago you’d occasionally see adware programs try to remove rivals from a PC, in order to take all of the ad revenue for its creator. That’s not all, however.

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Managed Detection and Response in Q4 2020

SecureList

Finally, Low severity is related to incidents without a significant impact, which still ought to be fixed, for example, infection with grayware, such as adware, riskware, etc. DDOS/DOS with impact. Companies that suffered from targeted attacks typically engaged in offensive exercises, a sign of adequate risk assessment.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

SecureList

The Updated Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments describes the potential sanctions risks associated with making and facilitating ransomware payments and provides information for contacting relevant US government. If not ransomware, then DDoS or possibly both. Extortion on the rise.

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Cyber Threats to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Digital Shadows

These malicious apps constitute a risk for customers and developers alike—and they can be easily found online using the most common search engines. Most of the observed attacks were crowdsourced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, website defacements, and data destruction operations.