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Top 5 Security Trends this Summer: RSA Conference & Black Hat 2022

Webroot

Cyber insurance becomes mainstream discussion. As cyberattacks have become more costly and more challenging to track, cyber insurance has gained prominence across the industry. The cyber insurance market is expected to reach around $20B by 2025. Cyber Resilience planning puts focus on recovery readiness.

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A week in security (April 25 – May 1)

Malwarebytes

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Why MITRE matters to SMBs Apple’s child safety features are coming to a Messages app near you Why software has so many vulnerabilities, with Tanya Janca: Lock and Code S03E09 Watch out for this SMS phish promising a tax refund Rogue ads phishing for cryptocurrency: Are you secure?

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How security pros, the insurance industry, and regulators can combat ransomware

SC Magazine

AIG is one of the top cyber insurance companies in the U.S. Today’s columnist, Erin Kennealy of Guidewire Software, offers ways for security pros, the insurance industry and government regulators to come together so insurance companies can continue to offer insurance for ransomware. eflon CreativeCommons CC BY 2.0.

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Cybersecurity threats: what awaits us in 2023?

SecureList

Phishing attacks are going to become even more sophisticated, since a lot of basic tactics have already been tried this year, and businesses learned to repel those. Arthur Laudrain, Strategic Analyst (Cyber Program), The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. Yury Slobodyanuk , head of content filtering research, Kaspersky.

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Cybersecurity in 2020

Cytelligence

The variety show of phishing attacks – While email remains number one for phishing attacks, cybercriminals are also using a variety of other attack routes to trick their intended victims into giving up personal information, login credentials, or even sending money. Cyber Security Awareness Training . Eradication.

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Why 83 Percent of Large Companies Are Vulnerable to This Basic Domain Hack

Adam Levin

A recent domain hijack of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.com was used to spoof the company in a spear-phishing campaign. . “They had all of our traffic and we were losing thousands of dollars daily in revenue.” ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. As ransomware keeps at its current pace, we see a boom in cyber insurance sales (see Ransomware Insurance: Cyber Insurance May Be the Best Protection ).