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SonicWall has published its latest threat report, showing a drop in ransomware but an increase in malware attacks in the first half of 2022. In an interview with The Register, SonicWall CEO Bill Conner noted that factors including the Russia and Ukraine conflict as well as the activities of law enforcement agencies had at least partially caused the drop but warned: "I think in the next six to 12 months you're going to see ransomware come back strong as the state of affairs settle into whatever this new norm is."
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The global cloud migration continues to fuel a market expected to hit the $1 trillion milestone in 2028. A recent report of Forrester Consulting, commissioned by Quali, found that 63% of surveyed IT and decision-makers say their organizations lack the support for a variety of cloud resources.
Vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform HackerOne on Friday disclosed that a former employee at the firm improperly accessed security reports submitted to it for personal gain. The employee, who had access to HackerOne systems between April 4 and June 23, 2022, for triaging vulnerability disclosures associated with different customer programs, has since been terminated by the San Francisco-headquartered company as of June 30.
A HackerOne employee stole vulnerability reports submitted through the bug bounty platform and disclosed them to affected customers to claim financial rewards. The rogue worker had contacted about half a dozen HackerOne customers and collected bounties "In a handful of disclosures," the company said on Friday.
"Despite defenders' best efforts, cybercriminals continue to defraud, extort, and ransom companies for billions of dollars annually," said Sherrod DeGrippo, vice president of threat research and detection at Proofpoint. Proofpoint entered into the report with a number of assumptions in place, detailing what methods threat actors would go to to carry out an attack, as well as the methods employed to help carry out such attacks.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says Americans have reported losing more than $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency to scams between January 2021 and March 2022. The U.S. law enforcement agency said that tens of thousands of reports pointed to over $1.6 billion in cryptocurrency losses.
BeyondTrust's recent 2022 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report includes the latest annual breakdown of Microsoft vulnerabilities by category and product, as well as a six-year trend analysis, providing a holistic understanding of the evolving threat landscape. In this video for Help Net Security, Morey Haber, Chief Strategy Officer at Beyond Trust, talks about this report, which analyzes data from security bulletins publicly issued by Microsoft throughout the previous year.