A new study found the countries with the highest and lowest risk for cyber threats worldwide in 2024. Cybersecurity experts at mixmode.ai found that Finland ranked first among the lowest-risk countries for Cyber Threats Worldwide, with a Cyber Safety Score of 92.81. In overall cyber safety, Finland has outperformed several major countries, such as the USA, UK,…
Attackers are targeting the scope and scale of the cloud to run rapid and coordinated threat campaigns. A new approach is needed to defend against them, SentinelOne (NYSE: S), a global leader in AI-powered security, is delivering it, with the launch of Singularity Cloud Native Security. A revolutionary solution built on SentinelOne’s acquisition of PingSafe…
Virtually the entire population of a country has been affected by a compromise of biometric data. A threat actor leaked the personally identifiable information (PII) of over five million citizens from El Salvador on the Dark Web, impacting more than 80% of the country’s population. The threat actor, going by the alias ‘CiberinteligenciaSV,’ posted the 144 GB data dump…
Amidst rising tensions with China in the South China Sea, Resecurity has observed a significant spike in malicious cyber activity targeting the Philippines in Q1 2024, increasing nearly 325% compared to the same period last year. The number of cyberattacks involving hacktivist groups and foreign misinformation campaigns has nearly tripled. In Q2 2024, this growth trajectory continues, with Resecurity observing multiple cyberattacks staged by previously unknown threat actors. These attacks are characterized by the…
IDC’s latest Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide According to IDC’s latest Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide, spending on security hardware, services, and software in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) is expected to reach $36 billion in 2024, an increase of 12.3% over the previous year. With the evolving threat landscape and increasing complexities, organizations in the region are…
Calling all high-risk individuals: Ensure you’re taking adequate steps to secure your personal devices and accounts against hacking, tampering and other types of interference. Britain’s National Cyber Security Center is warning that criminals and nation-state hacking groups, confronted with well-managed corporate cybersecurity defenses, have turned their sights to individual personal devices and accounts. “In recent years there…
CybeReady a global leader in autonomous cybersecurity learning, is pleased to announce the launch of its new Internal Communications Center. This innovative management dashboard is designed to enhance how organizations orchestrate and communicate cybersecurity engagement among their employees, making it easier to keep everyone continually informed and committed to mastering the cybersecurity education process. …
Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw impacting its Secure Client software that could be exploited by a threat actor to open a VPN session with that of a targeted user. Cisco described the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20337 (CVSS score: 8.2), as allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a carriage return…
The China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda orchestrated both watering hole and supply chain attacks targeting Tibetan users at least since September 2023. The end goal of the attacks is to deliver malicious downloaders for Windows and macOS that deploy a known backdoor called MgBot and a previously undocumented Windows implant known as Nightdoor. Key findings:…
U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an Executive Order that prohibits the mass transfer of citizens’ personal data to countries of concern. Key pointers in The Executive Order: The Executive Order also “provides safeguards around other activities that can give those countries access to Americans’ sensitive data,” the White House said in a statement. This includes sensitive…
