Acronis’ latest cyberthreats and trends report for the second half of 2022 has found that phishing and the use of MFA fatigue attacks are on the rise. Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks are an extremely effective method of cyberattack used in high-profile breaches. This social engineering...
Sophos, global cybersecurity leader, revealed that ransomware remains one of the greatest cybercrime threats to organisations in Africa. The firm disclosed the information in a recent Threat Report. The report details how the cyber threat landscape has reached a new level of commercialisation and convenience for...
Organisations must be diligent in their use of new and proven security measures to defend against a continually evolving threat says Ned Baltagi, Managing Director, Middle East and Africa, at SANS Institute. Today, ransomware stands as a significant money-maker for nefarious individuals, and is no longer...
Trellix, the cybersecurity company delivering the future of extended detection and response (XDR), has released The Threat Report: November 2022 from its Advanced Research Center, home to the world’s most elite security researchers and intelligence experts. The latest report analyses cybersecurity trends from the third quarter of...
Cybereason has issued a global Threat Analysis Report investigating the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang and its attacks on networks of global critical infrastructure operators. Attacks from Ragnar Locker first emerged in 2019, and since its debut hundreds of companies have become victims of their ransomeware attacks....
Trellix, the leader in cybersecurity company delivering extended detection and response (XDR), has released The Threat Report: Summer 2022. The report analyses cybersecurity trends and attack methods from the first quarter of 2022. The report also features research from Trellix Threat Labs into connected healthcare and...
Cohesity, a leader in next-gen data management, has announced the general availability of Cohesity FortKnox; the software as a service (SaaS) data isolation and recovery solution. The software adds to the company’s Data Management as a Service portfolio of offerings that run on Amazon Web...
Cybereason, the XDR company, has issued a global threat alert advisory warning global organisations about a rise in ransomware attacks from the Black Basta gang. The Black Basta gang first emerged in April 2022 and has victimised nearly 50 companies in the United States, United Kingdom,...
The bi-annual NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report has underlined the dramatic impact cyberattacks continue to have on governments and private and public organisations across the world. The first half of 2021 saw approximately 5.4million Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks – a figure that is 11 per...
