Cyber attacks news stories

Ransomware detections in the first quarter of this year doubled the total volume reported for 2021, according to a new report. 

The largely unregulated state of cybersecurity in NZ, and consequential ambivalence of most businesses, risk hurting the country's trading prospects.

Changing workforce dynamics are creating new challenges for IT teams around firmware security, according to new research.

In recent years, Asia-Pacific has especially been a hotspot for cyberattacks, and as we continue into 2022, it’s evident that the problem is becoming more significant.

New insight into how attackers think when carrying out cyber attacks, along with further analysis of the disclosure layer of double extortion ransomware attacks, has come to light.

The cybersecurity company has announced VicOne - dedicated security for the electric vehicles and connected cars of today and tomorrow.

The data are clear, with cyberattacks on the rise in recent years and the cybersecurity situation increasingly complex. 

The move opens up limitless data ingestion, speed, and scale opportunities for worldwide security teams in their ongoing fight against cybersecurity attacks.

Some 89% of electricity, oil & gas, and manufacturing firms have experienced cyber attacks impacting production and energy supply over the past year.

80% of organisations in Singapore suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2022, compared to the 60% reported in 2021.

CrowdStrike Asset Graph is a new graph database powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, providing IT leaders with a 360-degree view into all assets.

Research finds that there has been a 36% increase in cyber attack dwell time, with a median intruder dwell time of 15 days in 2021 versus 11 days in 2020.

Organisations are struggling to define and secure an expanding cyber-attack surface, hampering risk management efforts.

One constant that remains as organisations approach a sense of normalcy after a disruptive year is that cyber criminals continue to target and exploit people.

Mandiant has launched a digital risk protection offering that allows security leaders to proactively mitigate threats before they disrupt business operations.

Mandiant and Interos have entered a strategic partnership to provide advanced insights and analysis to help businesses defend against cyber attacks and other threats.

Vectra AI has launched Vectra Protect, a posture management tool designed to find and mitigate security risks in Microsoft 365.

A new study from Venafi has found 82% of CIOS say their organisations are vulnerable to cyberattacks targeting software supply chains. 

“We can’t solve this problem using existing methodologies. Instead, we need to think differently about the identity and integrity of the code we are building."

It is often said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. If that is the case, the cyber security community suffers from collective insanity.

Cyber attacks targeting the health and social care sector in Australia doubled in 2021 compared with data from 2020.

According to the report, while the average attack size fell by 50% over 2021 the maximum attack size nearly tripled, growing 297% over the same period.

"Considering that 77 per cent of global transactions touch a SAP system, protecting it against cyber-attacks is vital."

The number of victims of ransomware attacks appears to have stabilised during April 2022, according to NCC Group.