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GUEST RESEARCH:  Delinea, a leading provider of solutions for securing human and machine identities through centralised authorisation, today released its inaugural Cybersecurity and the AI Threat Landscape report.

Ransomware threats increased fourfold during 2024, likely driven by prolific Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) activity, according to Barracuda’s annual review of XDR detection and incident data. Email threats that made it through to user inboxes were the fifth most detected threat overall, highlighting the growing risk of sophisticated and evasive attacks enabled by Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms.

GUEST RESEARCH: Barracuda Networks, a leading provider of cloud-first security solutions has released new research showing that lateral movement is the clearest sign of an unfolding ransomware attack, catching just under half (44%) of incidents. A quarter (25%) of incidents were detected when the attackers started writing or editing files, and 14% were unmasked by behavior that didn’t fit with known activity patterns. The findings are included in Barracuda’s annual Threat Spotlight on ransomware, which explores the main ransomware attack patterns over the last 12 months.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Highpoints from the report include an analysis on the pervasiveness of ransomware and how defenders are fighting back against AI-powered cyberattacks

Rapid shifts in the cyber security landscape and new techniques adopted by attackers attempting to sidestep traditional defences are revealed in the 2023 End of Year threat report from Cyber security artificial intelligence provider Darktrace.

Australian law enforcement agencies appear to have resorted to psyops in a bid to send a message to network attackers that Australia is not the best place to do business.

GUEST OPINION by Tilly Travers, Sophos: Even the most carefully planned ransomware attacks don’t always go according to plan.

With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging in many parts of the world, which has also seen cyberthreats accelerating even faster than digital transformation efforts, how is BlackBerry helping companies around the world stay protected, and thrive?

With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging in many parts of the world, which has also seen cyberthreats accelerating even faster than digital transformation efforts, how is BlackBerry helping companies around the world stay protected, and thrive?

Webroot has released its annual list of the Nastiest Malware, "revealing phishing, botnet attacks and ransomware as 2020’s most vicious cybersecurity threats".

Ransomware authors have moved to the next stage, offering their creations on the model that the rest of the Web has adopted, researchers at Trend Micro say.