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Ransomware, BEC and Phishing Still Top Concerns, per 2021 Threat Report

Webroot

Although cybercriminal activity throughout 2020 was as innovative as ever, some of the most noteworthy threat activity we saw came from the old familiar players, namely ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. By September 2020, the average ransom payment peaked at $233,817. “In

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Bitdefender 2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report – Attackers Increasingly Target the Human Layer

Hot for Security

Bitdefender this week has published its annual Consumer Threat Landscape Report for 2020 underscoring some of the most prevalent cyber threats targeting regular users today. A key stat: cybercrime in 2020 was marked by a visible and aggressive targeting of the human layer. Aligned efforts to capitalize on COVID-19.

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Financial cyberthreats in 2021

SecureList

share in 2020 to the second most common in 2021 with 12.2%. Emotet (9.3%), described by Europol as “the world’s most dangerous malware”, underwent a drop of five percentage points between 2020 and 2021.This The mass change in cybercriminals’ objectives and methods seen in 2020 continued in 2021.

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‘Tis the season for protecting your devices with Webroot antivirus

Webroot

According to our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud Threat Report , on average, 18.8% of consumer PCs in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America were infected during 2020. Our real-time anti-phishing also blocks bad sites. Do I really need antivirus? In a word, yes. Looking to protect more than one device?

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Financial cyberthreats in 2022

SecureList

However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. We previously reported on the Lazarus group, which developed VHD ransomware for the purpose of monetary gain. of all phishing attacks in 2022.

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Access Management is Essential for Strengthening OT Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The threat landscape. According to Interpol's Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment report , critical infrastructure is highly targeted by ransomware gangs that are after what is called the Big Game Hunting. Transportation sector. Access management is an essential mitigation strategy.

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Growing Security Safely in Canada

Duo's Security Blog

Prisma Clouds’ 2021 Cloud Threat Report and Verizon’s 2021 DBIR Report show how companies have needed to adapt and expand cloud workloads and how this has affected their cybersecurity. This led to the cloud workloads of organizations growing by 20% from December 2019 to June 2020.