Rubrik, a cloud data management company, has revealed almost one-in-three (29%) Australian and New Zealand organizations which fell victim to ransomware attacks in the past two years had paid off the criminal groups responsible to regain access to their data. This insight emerged from IDC’s A/NZ Ransomware Survey, August 2020, commissioned by Rubrik. This finding […]
Researchers from cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky have detected a wave of phishing attacks leading to a malicious domain perfectly disguised as a legitimate Netflix landing page. As a popular streaming platform, Netflix is also a popular disguise for phishers, yet only some of the criminals go so far to create webpages in local languages and target […]
Researchers at cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky have detected a wave of fraudulent emails designed to make money for cybercriminals. The emails are disguised as lottery offer letters written in Arabic and contains a legitimate website link to make the email look trustworthy, yet in fact invite users to share their personal data in return for a […]
Following Apple’s recent presentation of the company’s updates and the iPhone 12 launch, Kaspersky experts have uncovered dozens of suspicious resources around the world, which allegedly offered to pre-order the new smartphone. In reality, however, there may be many more such resources and schemes. The websites typically include a ‘call to action’ for the user […]
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, has announced a first-of-its kind intent-based industrial intelligent IPS array for industrial environments, designed to protect Kuwait’s large-scale industrial networks from critical attacks whilst reducing OPEX and CAPEX. Aligned with Kuwait Vision 2035, the country is transitioning to a diversified economy with local manufacturing, along with […]
ESET researchers have participated in a global operation to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, which has since 2016, infected over a million computing devices. Along with partners Microsoft, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs Threat Research, NTT and others, the operation impacted Trickbot by tanking their command and control servers. ESET contributed to the effort with technical analysis, […]
Proofpoint, a cybersecurity and compliance solutions company, has announced multiple new Proofpoint innovations to ensure that organisations worldwide have end-to-end protection around their people—wherever and however employees are working and collaborating. Available in the market, Proofpoint’s new people-centric enterprise data loss prevention (DLP) solution helps enterprises identify and quickly respond to data loss resulting from […]
A cybersecurity attack on the New Zealand stock exchange has led two cybersecurity experts to underline its impact on critical infrastructure. In a statement, the stock market blamed the attack on overseas hackers, saying that it had “experienced a volumetric DDoS attack from offshore via its network service provider, which impacted NZX network connectivity.” Cath Goulding, […]
An expert from Nominet has warned the US education sector needs to increase its cybersecurity measures following an attack on a school district in California. Online classes at the Rialto Unified School District in California were suspended while officials investigated the nature of a malware attack. A statement from the body instructed pupils who had […]
Mimecast Secure Email Gateway recognized as a leader based on 2,000 user reviews. Mimecast, a leading email security and cyber-resilience company, has announced it has been presented with a TrustRadius 2020 Top Rated Award. Based entirely on customer feedback, the Mimecast Secure Email Gateway was named a valuable player in the category, receiving a trScore of 8.7 […]
