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…
Newly released 2025 Sophos Active Adversary Report revealed,50 % cyberattacks in 2024 bypassed traditional security defenses by using legitimate login credentials. The report, which analysed over 400 cases of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Incident Response (IR), revealed that 56 percent of cyberattacks were executed by adversaries simply logging in rather than breaking in….
The U.S. government on Tuesday unsealed charges against a Chinese national for allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos firewall devices globally in 2020. Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao), who is said to have worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company, Limited, has been charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and conspiracy to commit…
Joe Levy, who has been serving as acting CEO since 15 February, brings nearly three decades of experience in cybersecurity product development and leadership to his new role. Levy also spearheaded the creation of SophosAI and Sophos X-Ops, an operational threat intelligence unit comprising over 500 cybersecurity operators and threat intelligence experts. Sophos said this…
RaaS market disruption The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) market is getting disrupted, which has armed hackers with easy-to-use, off-the-shelf, and affordable ransomware solutions. The market, which has witnessed the disappearance of big players for over two years, is getting populated with ‘Junk Gun’ ransomware on the dark web The new family of ransomware is attracting ‘buyers’ because…
Sophos has started the early access program (EAP) for Sophos DNS Protection for networks. This new cloud-based service is part of our growing suite of Secure Access Service Edge products and services, expanding upon what we started with Sophos ZTNA and Sophos SD-WAN Orchestration. Enhanced internet and web security Sophos DNS Protection adds another layer…
