The situation for China-based social media company TikTok seems to be getting grim by the day as the U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has already made it clear that the country is “looking at” options to ban TikTok...
A research from technology firm Honeywell revealed that the severity of USB threats to operational technology (OT) systems doubled over a 12-month period, with the number of threats capable of disrupting OT systems rose from 26% to 59%.
The research,...
A cloud security survey by cybersecurity firm Sophos revealed that 70% of organizations suffered at least one public cloud security breach in 2019, including other security incidents like ransomware attacks (50%), compromised accounts (25%), exposed data (29%), and cryptojacking...
A survey report from KnowBe4, a provider of security awareness training for social engineering, spear phishing and ransomware attacks, revealed that rising ransomware attacks on municipalities continue to impact state and local governments across the U.S.
In its report “The...
The Middle East region has often been quick to embrace emerging technologies and comprehensive countermeasures to fortify its cybersecurity prowess. The scenario was not very different even during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the heightened need for...
Post the COVID-19 outbreak, organizations worldwide need to revisit their existing business model and bring in radical changes into the ongoing business operations by streamlining the various business processes and the underlying technology stack that will support the business...
Researchers from Avast discovered a malicious Android app “Cerberus” on the Google Play store spreading a banking Trojan. The Trojan was being spread via a Spanish currency converter app “Calculadora de Moneda” targeting Android users in Spain since March...
Research from business ISP provider Beaming revealed that the number of businesses in the U.K. that affected by cyberattacks has doubled since 2015. The five-year cybersecurity research stated that 1.5 million businesses (25%) in the U.K. suffered cyberthreats in...
With no end in sight to COVID-19, organizations have now accepted work from home (WFH) as the new normal. In fact, many Indian companies took a decision recently to let a section of their workforce to work from home...
Threat actors are finding innovative methods to phish people into clicking/downloading malicious links or entering sensitive information on fake forms. In a recent security discovery, the Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) found that cybercriminals are using calendar invitations to...
