Tag: cyberthreats
Cosmetics Brand Natura Suffers Data Breach; Personal Details of 250,000 Customers...
Natura, a provider of personal care and beauty products, suffered a data breach which compromised the personal information of more than 250,000 customers. The...
EasyJet Hacked; Details of 9 Mn Customers Compromised
EasyJet admitted that it has been a target of a cyberattack from a highly sophisticated source. It first learned of the attack in January...
Lurking in the Shadows: Potential Cyberthreats and How to Prevent Them
Working from home may make sense to reduce your employee’s risk of contracting COVID-19. It does, however, make life more difficult for your security...
Uncertain Data Sharing Practices Keep Educational Organizations at Risk: Research
Weak data sharing security controls are keeping several organizations in the education sector at risk of data security incidents. A research from cybersecurity firm...
Don’t Abandon Security During a Crisis
Working within dispersed teams is often part and parcel of a CISO’s job. In fact, before COVID-19, 7% of Americans were working remotely either...
Cyber Espionage Campaign “Naikon APT” Targets Government Entities in APAC Region
A Chinese hacker group is behind an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting government entities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, according to a new report...
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Reinforced Hackers’ Revenue Models
The industrious and criminal-minded threat actors behind the majority of cyberattacks have reinvented their attack approaches during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Since the advent...
Attackers Target 900,000 WordPress Sites in a Week
Threat actors tried to hack nearly one million WordPress sites in the last week, according to a security alert issued by cybersecurity firm Wordfence....
Ransom Payments Up 33% In Q1 2020; Sodinokibi and Ryuk Tops...
The average enterprise ransom payments increased 33% ($111,605) in Q1 of 2020 from Q4 of 2019, according to the Coveware Ransomware Marketplace Research report....
Lessons That Can Be Learned from Reviewing How We Manage Cybersecurity...
In recent years, some in the cyber world recognized that there is a lot to learn from the biological world when protecting systems against...
