Displaying items by tag: Hacktivism

GUEST REVEIW:  In November 2024, DDoS attackers launched a campaign targeting Australian websites. It’s not out of the ordinary for Australian sites to be on the receiving end of DDoS attacks. However, this event was unusual, amounting to a surge of over 60 DDoS attacks on 39 different websites during the month.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Dragos's Industrial Ransomware Analysis Report Q3 2024  revealed that the ransomware threat ecosystem remained highly active, driven by the emergence of new groups, rebranding of existing entities, the expansion of initial access broker (IAB) operations, and the proliferation of illicitly traded tools. Operators demonstrated a growing ability to adapt to disruptions, leveraging technological advancements and strategic realignments to sustain their operations.

GUEST OPINION: When Australian cybersecurity professionals return to work after a (hopefully) quiet festive break, they’ll be facing a year filled with both challenges and opportunities.

SYDNEY, 25 AUGUST 2023 - Check Point Research (CPR), the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, has unveiled its 2023 Mid-Year Security Report. The report uncovers an unsettling 8% surge in global weekly cyberattacks in the second quarter, the most significant increase in two years, highlighting how attackers have cunningly combined next-gen AI technologies with long-established tools like USB devices to conduct disruptive cyberattacks. The report also showcases how ransomware attacks have escalated in the first half of the year with new ransomware groups coming into the scene.

SYDNEY, 25 AUGUST 2023 - Check Point Research (CPR), the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, has unveiled its 2023 Mid-Year Security Report. The report uncovers an unsettling 8% surge in global weekly cyberattacks in the second quarter, the most significant increase in two years, highlighting how attackers have cunningly combined next-gen AI technologies with long-established tools like USB devices to conduct disruptive cyberattacks. The report also showcases how ransomware attacks have escalated in the first half of the year with new ransomware groups coming into the scene.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today released its First Half 2022 Global Threat Analysis Report. The mid-year report leverages intelligence provided by network and application attack activity sourced from Radware's cloud and managed services, global deception network, and threat research team.

GUEST RESEARCH: The latest Operational Technology (OT)/IoT security report from Nozomi Networks Labs finds wiper malware, IoT botnet activity, and the Russia/Ukraine war impacted the threat landscape in the first half of 2022.

GUEST RESEARCH: The cybersecurity threat landscape in the first quarter of 2022 represented a mix bag of old enemies and new foes. New actors dominated the DDoS threat landscape while application security faced tried-and-true attack vectors.

Digitisation of the world comes at a cost, with a new report estimating that data breaches and cybercrime will cost businesses around the globe a whopping $2.1 trillion by 2019 – four times the cost of breaches this year.

A number of high-traffic websites have been affected by interfering with a single DNS setting at a popular domain registrar.

Thirteen members of the hacking collective Anonymous have pleaded guilty to disabling Paypal's servers in 2010, after the payment site severed ties with Wikileaks.

This weekend sees Random Hacks Of Kindess breaking out across the land.

Start counting the pennies, if you're (un)lucky enough to suffer a data breach, on average it will cost you over $2M.

Every year, Verizon builds a major snapshot of all the data breaches they investigated in the previous year.  The latest report details the rise of hacktivism and the continuation of cyber criminal activity around the world.  We also interview one of the report's authors.

Several current trends in the security landscape are likely to continue, according to a McAfee executive. But some are expected to be reversed, and that's not good news for those of us on the right side of the law.