Security News > 2023 > April > 40% of IT security pros say they've been told not to report a data leak

In Brief More than 40 percent of surveyed IT security professionals say they've been told to keep network breaches under wraps despite laws and common decency requiring disclosure.

To further complicate matters, 40 percent of IT infosec folk polled said they were told to not report security incidents, and that climbs to 70.7 percent in the US, far higher than any other country.

When told to keep mum about breaches, 30 percent of the total global respondents said they followed through and obeyed those orders when they knew it should have been reported.

Globally, 54.3 percent of respondents said they were worried their organization was at risk of legal action due to incorrect handling of a security breach.

"The findings in this report depict organizations under tremendous pressure to contend with evolving threats such as ransomware, zero-day vulnerabilities and espionage, while struggling with complexities of extending security coverage across environments and ongoing skills shortage," said Andrei Florescu, deputy GM and SVP of product at Bitdefender Business Solutions Group.

According to Checkpoint, Rorschach shares a number of similarities with Babuk and LockBit ransomware strains, but still appears to be novel, "Sharing no overlaps that could easily attribute it to any known ransomware strain."

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