Tag: Sophos

AI-augmented cyberattacks are considered the most worrying cyber threats for organisations in Singapore.

The 'Cyber Insurance and Cyber Defenses 2024: Lessons from IT and Cybersecurity Leaders' report by Sophos reveals that a significant ...

Keeping up with the latest cybersecurity solutions/technologies is the biggest challenge facing Managed Service Providers (MSP), cited by 39% of ...

Sophos discovered 19 cheap, independently produced, and crudely constructed ransomware variants dubbed as “junk gun”, on the dark web since June ...

Cybercriminals abused remote desktop protocol (RDP) in 90% of attacks, the highest incidence of RDP abuse since 2020, according to the latest active ...

Cybercriminals abused remote desktop protocol (RDP) in 90% of attacks, the highest incidence of RDP abuse since 2020, according to the Active Adversary analysis, ...

Sophos and Tenable® partnered to provide a vulnerability and attack surface management service, Sophos Managed Risk. The service combines the exposure management technology of Tenable and ...

Around 94% of organisations hit by ransomware in the past year said that the cybercriminals attempted to compromise their backups ...

Around 90% of cybersecurity and IT professionals in Asia Pacific and Japan are impacted by burnout and fatigue, according to Sophos’ fourth ...

Some of the most prolific and active ransomware groups, including Akira, ALPHV/BlackCat, LockBit, Royal, and Black Basta, are deliberately switching on remote encryption for their ...

Only 26% of retail organisations this past year disrupted a ransomware attack before data encryption, according to “The State of ...

Sophos released its Active Adversary Report for Security Practitioners, which found that telemetry logs were missing in nearly 42% of the attack cases ...

Sophos introduced new security capabilities against cyberattacks and exposed how malicious players are deploying ransomware “fast” attacks in a few ...

Sophos X-Ops discovered that multiple malicious players have been taking advantage of a leaked source code from LockBit 3.0 to launch ransomware attacks. The ...

Cybercriminals successfully encrypted data in nearly 75% of ransomware attacks in healthcare organisations according to “The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2023,” shared ...

Sophos released new findings into the connections between the most prominent ransomware groups in its report, “Clustering Attacker Behavior Reveals ...

Sophos announced the Sophos AP6 Series to support the shift to hybrid environments with a new generation of remotely managed ...

Sophos launches Sophos Incident Response Retainer, which proactively improves organisations’ existing security resilience. Rob Harrison “Incident response retainers help organizations ...

Fraudsters use AI chat tools to refine their techniques and expand their coercion tactics, according to a report by Sophos ...

A Sophos survey revealed that the education sector received the highest rate of ransomware attacks in 2022. According to the ...

Cybersecurity is often not a tool but a people problem. Most IT and security teams are generally overworked, understaffed and ...

Despite the growing use of backups, manufacturing and production reported longer recovery times this year.

While OpenAI offers the basic functionality of ChatGPT to users for free online, these apps were charging anything from US$10 ...

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Sophos is already working to incorporate some of the prototypes into its products.

“Cybercriminals are scamming each other out of millions of dollars and use arbitration to settle disputes about the scams.” According ...

Cybercrime-as-a-service is removing nearly all barriers to entry for committing cybercrime. The Sophos 2023 Threat Report concludes that ransomware remains ...

Manufacturing and production companies reported the lowest level of backup use across all sectors, with just 58% of respondents using ...

Survey results revealed 49% of companies plan to take a more proactive stance in protecting their digital assets in the ...

The Sophos report, Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan, reveals a lack of boardroom awareness of cybersecurity, and ...

According to Check Point Research (CPR) cyberattacks in Asia-Pacific (APAC) grew 168% year on year in 2021, with one period ...

Log4J is a logging library for Java. It is used to debug software during its development lifecycle and entails inserting ...

The State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production 2021 by Sophos revealed companies in this sector were the least likely ...

FutureCIO asked security architect Clement Lee, from Check Point Software Technologies, Siupan Chan, sales engineering manager with Sophos, and the ...

The cyberattack on Kaseya should be a reminder that vigilance against cyberattacks is not about waiting for the next exploit.

Cybercriminals are now turning to data theft as a primary objective to ensure their ransom demands are met, otherwise, they ...

Cyberattacks increase while stagnant budgets and apathetic leadership remain major cybersecurity barriers across Asia-Pacific. Skills issues also remain an issue.

FutureCIO approached information technology firms for their recommendations on how to approach data protection in 2021.

SETI@home was launched on May 17, 1999, to help search for extra-terrestrial – that’s right: ET – by using the ...

There's been a really big shift in needing to consider those kinds of commodity malware infections as just the beginning ...

Arcserve launched Arcserve X Series Appliances Secured by Sophos calling it the first self-contained solution with integrated cyber and data ...

This Sophos 2020 paper offers guidance on what enterprises can do to fortify their cybersecurity strategies through a better understanding ...

Public cloud cybersecurity incidents are up with ransomware and malware, exposed data, compromised accounts, and cryptojacking to blame

Sophos’ global survey reveals that the average cost of recovery of a ransomware attack is US$1.4 million if organizations pay ...

VPNs ensure that the data exchanged between the client and remote network and its applications is encrypted and secure from ...

 Sophos has introduced Sophos Intercept X for Mobile with new security capabilities for Chrome OS devices and improved mobile threat defense for Android ...

Sophos 2020 Threat Report shows how cyberattackers are raising the stakes in ransomware, increasing stealth in malicious Android apps, exploiting ...

New threat hunting, detection and response offering powered by machine learning and expert analysis to neutralize the most advanced cybersecurity ...

In August 2019, 4.3 million WannaCry infection attempts were stopped worldwide by Sophos-protected endpoints – 4.1 percent of these stopped ...

https://youtu.be/umGhDN2ivWM Perhaps it is not altogether surprising if security professionals view digital transformation with apprehension. While some may be up ...

https://youtu.be/umGhDN2ivWM Perhaps it is not altogether surprising if security professionals view digital transformation with apprehension. While some may be up ...