Cyberattacks

Enemy at the Gates

Financial services is among the industries that have been the heaviest hit by cybercrime — from the heyday of the Zeus and other banking trojans to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, modern phishing attacks, and ransomware. FinServ is a vital sector that plays a major role not only in the lives of people, but also in

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The ASX 200 Attack Surface

Executive Summary Overall, the companies listed on the ASX 200 have a respectable security posture. The attack surface of ASX 200 companies in general is on-par with their counterparts in the FTSE 350 and the Fortune 500. There is still definite room for improvement, but the overall security posture of ASX 200 companies have measurably

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The 2022 Singapore User Risk Report

The 2022 Singapore User Risk Report complements research from the 2022 Human Factor from Proofpoint. Since its inception, the Human Factor has explored a simple premise: that people—not technology—are the most critical variable in today’s cyber threats. Since then, this once-contrarian notion has become a widely acknowledged reality. Cyber attackers target people. They exploit people.

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The State of Email Security 2022

A Digital Pandemic of EPIC PROPORTIONS Like the virus responsible for the worldwide pandemic, email-based cyber threats continued to mutate in 2021, causing global havoc. As Mimecast’s sixth annual State of Email Security report makes clear, businesses around the world continued to find themselves in the crosshairs not just of a novel coronavirus, but also

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The State of Ransomware in State and Local Government 2022

Findings from an independent, vendor-agnostic survey of 5,600 IT professionals in mid-sized organizations across 31 countries, including 199 respondents from the state and local government sector. Introduction Sophos’ annual study of the real-world ransomware experiences of IT professionals in the state and local government sector has revealed an ever more challenging attack environment. Together with

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