China-linked cyber espionage groups increasingly targeted organizations in the telecommunications industry in 2019. According to the CrowdStrike 2020 Global Threat Report, the telecommunications and government sectors were the most targeted by the threat...
An interesting report published by RiskIQ on 2019 Mobile App Threat Landscape, lists the most dangerous mobile app store online. Mobile users downloaded over 200 billion apps in 2019 and the overall expense in app stores worldwide has been estimated...
FireEye’s report revealed that the incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families in 2019. According to the FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report, FireEye analyzed 1.1 million malware samples per day in 2019 and identified...
More than 400 flaws affecting industrial control systems (ICS) were disclosed in 2019, more than 100 were zero-day vulnerabilities. According to a report published by Dragos, the experts analyzed 438 ICS vulnerabilities that were reported in 212 security...
Peripheral devices with unsigned firmware can expose Windows and Linux machines to hack, warn experts from firmware security firm Eclypsium. Experts at firmware security firm Eclypsium have discovered that many peripheral device manufacturers have...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released reports on North Korea-linked HIDDEN COBRA malware. The FBI, the US Cyber Command, and the Department of Homeland Security have published...
According to IBM, OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, most of them involved the Echobot IoT malware. IBM’s 2020 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report analyzes the threat landscape in 2019, the experts observed a spike in the number...
Microsoft published an interesting report that investigates web shell attacks, the IT giant says it detects 77,000 active web shells daily. According to a report published by Microsoft, the company detects an average of 77,000 active web shells, spreading...
Experts at cyber security firm Cypher conducted a study on Portuguese domains during 2019 and concluded that Emotet and Ryuk were the most active threats Emotet, the most widespread malware worldwide and Ryuk, a ransomware type, are growing threats...
I'm preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020 Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations...