New research from F5 Labs has revealed that IoT devices are now cybercriminals’ top attack target, surpassing web and application services, and email servers. Gartner currently estimates that the number of IoT devices will surge to 20.4 billion by 2020, which represents a staggering 143% growth rate over three years. “IoT devices already outnumber people […]

The global outbreak of malicious cryptocurrency mining that unfolded in 2018 saw the number of attacks increase by more than 83%, with more than five million users attacked online in the first three quarters of the year compared to 2.7 million over the same period in 2017. The major driver behind the crypto gold rush […]

The time of unrestrained shopping has already begun, thanks to Black Friday in November. This is swiftly followed by Christmas and New Year gift giving, and then the January sales. But Kaspersky Lab is warning shoppers that cybercriminals targeting banking credentials or online shopping accounts could hit the jackpot this holiday season. As revealed in Kaspersky […]

There has been an unprecedented number of cyberattacks and the malware count has reached an all-time in high in 2018, according to Kaspersky Lab. The vendor’s solutions repelled almost two billion attacks launched from online resources and detected more than 21 million unique malicious objects from around the world in 2018. Its statistics show that, […]

Tenable, the cyberexposure company, has released the Measuring and Managing the Cyber Risks to Business Operations Report, an independent study conducted by Ponemon Institute. It found that 60% of organisations globally had suffered two or more business-disrupting cyberevents – defined as cyberattacks causing data breaches or significant disruption and downtime to business operations, plant and […]

Bromium, a pioneer and leader in application isolation and containment for endpoint protection that stops advanced malware attacks, has warned organisations of the threat posed by hackers delivering malware via email attachments in the run up to Christmas. This comes after Bromium recorded a spike in the number of malicious files sent via email from […]

WatchGuard Technologies, a leader in advanced network security solutions, has issued its quarterly Internet Security Report for Q3 2018. For the first time ever, Mac-based malware appeared on WatchGuard’s list of the top 10 most common types of malware. The report also found that 6.8% of the world’s top 100,000 websites still accept old, insecure […]

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has revealed that 43% of surveyed organisations have been impacted by a Business Process Compromise (BPC). Despite a high incidence of these types of attacks, 50% of management teams still don’t know what these attacks are or how their business would be impacted if they were […]

A majority of consumers are willing to walk away from businesses entirely if they suffer a data breach, with retailers most at risk, according to research from Gemalto, a world leader in digital security. Two-thirds (66%) are unlikely to shop or do business with an organisation that experiences a breach where their financial and sensitive […]

McAfee Labs has released its 2019 cybersecurity threats predictions. The McAfee Labs 2019 Threats Predictions Report, identifies rising trends and how they are predicted to change the cyberthreat landscape in 2019. McAfee researchers expect malware-as-a-service families to strengthen, energising the market for attack outsourcing and the evolution of increasingly innovative and agile attack methods. As […]