Enterprise security challenges witnessed a sudden uptick due to the spike in work from home. A recent study commissioned by Juniper and conducted by Vanson Bourne explored the attitudes, perspectives, and concerns of senior IT networking and security professionals from...
Marking the second anniversary of the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA), a government-backed cyber innovation program, Digital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman announced that hundreds of the U.K.’s vital healthcare firms are set to benefit from government’s newest...
Security researchers from cybersecurity firm ESET uncovered a new kind of Linux malware variant targeting Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony softswitches. The malware dubbed as “CDRThief” is programmed to compromise specific softswitches - Linknat VOS2009 and VOS3000--and exfiltrate private data like...
APT28, also known as the “Fancy bear” or “Strontium” threat group, is reportedly backed by the Russian military intelligence agency GRU and has been active since at least 2007. APT28 is famously known to target political entities for carrying...
While organizations are trying hard to cope with the new working conditions like connecting with remote employees and securing critical data at distributed networks, opportunistic cybercriminals are targeting organizations that lack cyber readiness.
The “Acronis Cyber Readiness Report 2020,” from...
While the concept of Zero Trust was created 10 years ago, the events of 2020 have thrust it to the top of enterprise security agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven mass remote working, which means that organizations’ traditional perimeter-based...
A report published by Coalition, a provider of cyber insurance services in North America, revealed that ransomware incidents accounted to 41% of cyber insurance claims filed in the first six months of 2020. The report “H1 2020 Cyber Insurance...
The usage of video conferencing and calling applications has skyrocketed since the beginning of the pandemic, which has drawn eyeballs of threat actors towards this new attack surface. This inadvertently means that video calling platforms have been on the...
Several organizations are concerned about human errors that cause accidental exposure of a company’s critical data. A joint study from Stanford University Professor Jeff Hancock and security firm Tessian revealed that nine in 10 (88%) data breach incidents are...
Cryptocurrencies have always been a primary target of cybercriminals. Recently, Slovakia-based Eterbase Exchange admitted that it became a victim of a security incident in which unknown hackers accessed its network systems and stole $5.4 million worth of crypto funds....
