Sophos State of Ransomware report Vulnerabilities Cause for Ransomware in 2025.

The sixth edition of the annual Sophos State of Ransomware report which reveals the reality of ransomware in 2025.This year’s report details how organizations’ experiences of ransomware— both cause and consequences — have evolved over the last 12 months. It also shines light into previously unexplored areas, including the operational factors that left organizations exposed…

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Cybercrime To Cost The World $12.2 Trillion Annually By 2031

Cybercrime is predicted to cost the world $10.5 trillion USD in 2025, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime would be the world’s third largest economy after the U.S. and China. This represents the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history, risks the incentives for innovation and investment, is exponentially…

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Ascension discloses Data breach after Third-party Hacking Incident

Ascension, one of the largest private healthcare systems in the United States, is notifying patients that their personal and health information was stolen in a December 2024 data theft attack, which affected a former business partner. The health network operates 142 hospitals nationwide, has over 142,000 employees, and has reported a total revenue of $28.3 billion in…

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Outdated Network Devices are reasons for Cyberattacks; Sophos Report

Sophos released its Annual Threat Report 2025: Cybercrime on Main Street, which sheds light on the biggest security threats small and medium-sized businesses faced in 2024, including ransomware as biggest threat. Compromised network edge devices—firewalls, virtual private network appliances, and other access devices—account for a quarter of the initial compromises of businesses in cases that…

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Ransomware Attacks Ups in Southeast Asia with 57,000 cases; Kaspersky

Kaspersky has reported that over 57,000 ransomware attacks were detected in Southeast Asia during the first half of 2024, with Indonesia accounting for the highest number of incidents. In addition to Indonesia, where 32,803 incidents were blocked, the Philippines experienced 15,208 ransomware attacks, and Thailand saw 4,841 cases. In Malaysia, 3,920 attacks were recorded, followed…

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Healthcare Orgs remain top targets for threat actors in 2024;14M patients targeted reports SonicWall

61% of healthcare companies experienced a cloud cyberattack in the yr2023, with 86% of these attacks resulting in financial losses or significant damages. Healthcare remains top amongst favorite for Cybercriminals, 14M patients affected in the U.S. have been affected by data breaches in 2024 so far, reports  SonicWall . 91% of the healthcare data breaches…

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