Cyber attacks stories - Page 34

Organisations need to be more cognisant of such malicious attacks, and build better cybersecurity posture from a people-centric standpoint.

Australia's critical infrastructure protection extends to healthcare, with a focus on hospitals' intensive care units.

In 2017 the Ponemon Institute reported that fileless attacks are ten times more successful than file-based attacks.

In the fight against cyberthreats, the human factor is often overlooked. Humans can be both a vulnerability and a defense. #cybersecurity.

Kaspersky Threat Data Feeds integrate with Microsoft Sentinel, providing actionable context for attack investigation and response.

Venafi's research reveals growing use of machine identities in state-sponsored cyber attacks amid increasing geopolitical tensions.

Nearly two-thirds suspect their organisation has been either directly targeted or impacted by a nation-state cyberattack.

Ransomware attacks on education, healthcare, municipalities, infrastructure, and financial sectors dominate, according to Barracuda research.

Costly and higher-impact data breaches are contributing to rising costs of goods and services, reveals IBM Security's annual report.

BeyondTrust releases BeyondTrust Password Safe 22.2 and BeyondInsight 22.2, with new features to improve security and manage disconnected systems.

Exploit trends demonstrate the endpoint remains a target as work-from-anywhere continues, according to a new report.

The first six months of 2022 were marked by a significant increase in DDoS activity across the globe, according to a new report.

Exploits for vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office have surged, accounting for 82% of total exploits in Q2 2022, according to Kaspersky.

Claroty has released research detailing a new type of cyber-attack, one that weaponises programmable logic controllers (PLCs).

Response-based attacks targeting corporate inboxes have climbed to their highest volume since 2020, representing 41% of all email-based scams.

When breaking down the numbers to education attacks by region in July 2022, ANZ was the most heavily attacked.

Threat activity has spiked in Q2 2022, with malware events rising by 25%, botnets doubling, and exploit activity growing almost 150%, says Nuspire's report.

Australian organisations are more concerned about cyberattacks than they were prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey.

Each ransomware gang left its own ransom demand, and some of the files were triple encrypted, according to a new report from Sophos.

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