Police in Nigeria this week arrested a 37-year-old man who's been charged with masterminding "a criminal syndicate tied to massive business email compromise and phishing campaigns," Interpol reports. But with known BEC losses last year exceeding $2.4 billion, will the arrest have a noticeable impact?
Since at least the middle of last year, online attackers have been increasingly targeting the financial services sector.
So warns John Fokker, principal engineer and head of cyber investigations for the Advanced Threat Research group at cybersecurity firm Trellix. He says Trellix's latest threat assessment found a...
Cyber Risk Analytics is Flashpoint's data breach research team that since 2013 has analyzed incidents and trends. Inga Goddijn, who heads that team, opens up on ransomware, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and why so much of successful defense still comes back to getting the basics right.
The separation and security measures relied upon traditionally in IT and OT environments have been compromised by recent interconnectivity. When considering growing proliferation of IT and OT devices, identities and applications along with the rise of hybrid workforce and the skills and resource shortages, the...
Since existing security products are not adaptable to the way applications are being developed and pushed today, continuous security testing proves an ideal solution that helps in staying ready for any threat that is coming your way.
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Executives are required to make “data-driven” decisions; Metrics, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – however you define being data-driven – to measure security program effectiveness, and frame their conversations to the board, partners, and company at large.
Yet, there...
Tenable has agreed to purchase startup Bit Discovery for $44.5 million to help companies discover, attribute and monitor assets on the internet. The deal will allow Tenable to identify vulnerable internet-facing assets that could be attacked.
Each day organizations face new threats that jeopardize their critical networks. Gaining visibility into the security risks your supply chain or third-party vendors pose to your organization is a growing priority among cybersecurity leaders. Next-generation cybersecurity practices will require organizations to align...
Fresh warnings are being sounded about the threat posed by semi-autonomous killing machines both on and above the battlefield, especially as lethal weapons continue to gain features that push them toward full autonomy. Experts say international norms and legal safeguards are overdue.
As a security leader, you know that the way to align your vulnerability management program to support the business is to mitigate the vulnerabilities that have the biggest business impact. But that’s easier said than done. How do you discover and rate each vulnerability? How do you remediate them without disrupting...
In the wake of the great digital transformation, cybersecurity is more
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But how does a security leader keep that attention and also
win over other key stakeholders in the enterprise all while ensuring that cyber maturity and quantifying risk is...
Keeping up with myriad data privacy and information security regulations has never been easy. Security mandates are complicated and constantly evolving. Adding to the complexity: organizations often face deadlines to meet compliance objectives – and fast.
Across industries and regions, compliance frameworks...
Online attackers are increasingly targeting the financial services sector. John Fokker, head of cyber investigations at Trellix, says his firm has charted a 22% quarterly increase in ransomware attacks on financial services, and APT detections have risen by 37%. Here's how the industry must respond.
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