This cyber threat is a form of extortion and is one of the most costly cyberattacks for businesses. Ransomware attacks have been on the upswing, growing by around 67% in 2023. Phishing and social engineering Another common type of cyberattack that affects businesses is social engineering, in ...
In addition, a tool that remotely controls devices,Remote Manipulator System (RMS), was found to have been distributed in Ukraine via fake “Evacuation Plan” emails. Ukraine also suffered a wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This included an attack targeting theState Savings ...
A company's kill chain cannot prepare them for advanced threats due to the nature and makeup of cyberattacks that have changed drastically. How to fix this? Do not create a cyber kill chain; never update the model to fix the problem. APTs (advanced persistent threats)are the latest ...
Even the attacks that happened in 2020, like the FireEye attack or the Sunburst attack, that targeted the SolarWinds supply chain, will have long lasting effects. We have only seen the beginning of these attacks. Investigators suspect, for example, that up to 250 organizations may have been ...
This means that Denmark is also a target with a generous and attractive attack surface for threat actors.As a result, major cyberattacks impacted important economic sectors and a large number of people. Like the Petya cyberattack over Maersk, the Danish biggest shipping company, in 2017. Or...
(2011) find that attacks associated with breaches of availability have the greatest negative effect on stock market returns. Campbell et al. (2003) find a highly significant negative market reaction for data breaches involving unauthorized access to confidential data, but no significant reaction when ...
With our Cyberattack Series, customers will discover how Microsoft Incident Response investigates unique and notable attacks. For each cyberattack story, we will share: How the cyberattack happened. How the breach was discovered. Microsoft’s investigation and evic...
december, ukraine’s president, petro poroshenko, reported that there had been 6,500 cyberattacks on 36 ukrainian targets in just the previous two months. international cybersecurity analysts have stopped just short of conclusively attributing these attacks to the kremlin, but poroshenko didn’t ...
Several South African based companies, state owned entities, government departments and citizens have been victims of cyber-attacks. To respond to the growing spectre of cybercrime, the South African government promulgated laws to supplement the existing legal framework. It also operationalised some of...
In other words, you don't have to be an enterprise IT pro to understand the latest security risks. That's the easy part. The hard part is understanding who is at risk, why and when you might fall prey to an attack, how pervasive attacks are and what types of threats are most likely...