Cyberattacks

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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Cyber Signals, August 2022

Introduction Cybercriminals emboldened by underground ransomware economy While ransomware continues to be a headline-grabbing topic, there’s ultimately a relatively small, connected ecosystem of players driving this sector of the cybercrime economy. The specialization and consolidation of the cybercrime economy has fueled ransomware as a service (RaaS) to become a dominant business model, enabling a wider

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Multiple Attackers: A Clear and Present Danger

Competition has always been fierce among cryptominers and RATs, but ransomware bucks the trend. Since their inception, the Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Rapid Response (RR) teams have been called in to investigate hundreds of ransomware incidents, including intervening in active attacks where the attackers were still on the target’s network. In recent

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