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State of Cybersecurity in Canada 2025: Key Insights for InfoSec Leaders

SecureWorld News

Key findings: the cyber threat landscape in 2025 1. Ransomware and state-sponsored attacks continue to escalate Canada's critical sectorsincluding healthcare, energy, education, and retailhave become prime targets for cybercriminals. Education: Budget constraints make institutions a low-hanging fruit for cybercriminals.

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Top Cyber Attacker Techniques, August–October 2024

Digital Shadows

Initial Access Broker (IAB) activity increased by 16% during the reporting period, heavily targeting US-based organizations due to perceived financial capability from cyber insurance. To counter this, organizations should continually educate themselves on emerging trends and forum discussions around techniques.

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Upending expectations and challenging assumptions: BH Consulting Breakfast Insights 2025

BH Consulting

Common ways of infiltrating victim organisations include social engineering against employees and stolen credentials. Wrapping up the customer event, Brian Honan said the key lesson for security professionals is to engage with the people theyre trying to educate. Supply chain breaches are also becoming more frequent.

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AI Dilemma: Emerging Tech as Cyber Risk Escalates

Trend Micro

6 Alerts Back Unread All Inside the criminal mind: Trend’s deep dive into cybercrime. close Read report > Cloud security that leads: Centralized, multi-layered protection now named a CNAPP Leader by IDC.

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Top 8 Cyber Insurance Companies for 2022

eSecurity Planet

That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help. For that reason, most experts now recognize that a complete cybersecurity strategy not only includes technological solutions aimed at preventing, detecting, and mitigating attacks, it should also include cyber insurance to help manage the associated financial risks.

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Hive Ransomware group demands £500000 from School in England

CyberSecurity Insiders

What’s surprising about the incident is that the Hive Group has details that Wootton Educational Trust is covered under a cyber insurance and so is demanding the authorities to pay up huge i.e., £500,000. The post Hive Ransomware group demands £500000 from School in England appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

Byron: Companies often underestimate threats, neglect basic cyber hygiene, and fail to educate employees on cybersecurity. Erin: What are some of the most common social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use? Erin: Do you think cyber insurance should play a bigger role in companies’ cybersecurity strategies?