As 2021 began, the world faced the possibility that we have not entirely put the unprecedented challenges of 2020 behind us. Healthcare sector entities continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic that, beyond the tragic human toll of the disease, fueled numerous incidents of malicious cyber activity. The ransomware adversaries that proliferated in 2020 are as […]
Foreword Welcome to the Q4 2020 issue of the ESET Threat Report! 2020 was many things (“typical” not being one of them), and it sure feels good to be writing about it in the past tense. As if really trying to prove a point, the pandemic picked up new steam in the last quarter, bringing
The coming year has never been more uncertain for enterprises as the world grapples with an ongoing pandemic. As remote work arrangements become even more prevalent, long-simmering security issues are growing at an exponential scale. The far-reaching consequences of these abrupt changes demand recalibrated protection efforts. Increased online dependency requires enterprises to reconsider how they
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Distributed tech, Endpoint, Healthcare – NTT’s top threats for January 2021. NTT Ltd.’s latest Monthly Threat Report reveals that less than half (46.4%) of organisations increased their security tools during the shift to remote working in 2020. The report provides practical insights for security teams to embed good cybersecurity practices for their organisations in 2021.
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FOREWORD Welcome to the latest edition of the CrowdStrike® Services Cyber Front Lines Report! In the year since our last report was published, a pandemic has changed not only cybersecurity practices globally, but also our jobs as defenders in the digital space. Our jobs as defenders are more complicated, require more advanced skills and are
Executive Summary Since 2018, we estimated that the cost of global cybercrime reached over $1 trillion. We estimated the monetary loss from cybercrime at approximately $945 billion. Added to this was global spending on cybersecurity, which was expected to exceed $145 billion in 2020. Today, this is $1 trillion dollar drag on the global economy.
The transition to remote work opened a cybersecurity Pandora’s box. While the human workforce always comes with a particular security risk level – due mostly to hackers leveraging targeted phishing tactics via email, text, and phone ad nauseam – COVID-19 shutdowns created a need for rapid enterprise technology implementation despite the risks involved. Consequently, the
An Irresistible Business Model Once thought to be on the decline, successful ransomware attacks against all types of companies and organisations have dotted the headlines in the last two years. In 2019, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 2000 ransomware complaints, accounting for US$8.9 million in losses. We expect these numbers
Executive Summary – The cloud imperative for mining The mining industry has envisioned a future where business, human and environmental interests are not competing priorities, but complementary strengths: a “Triple Zero” future of zero harm, zero loss and zero waste. In this Triple Zero future, where zero harm is lived out day-to-day, the health and
