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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.
An analysis of the mobile threat landscape in 2022 shows that Spain and Turkey are the most targeted countries for malware campaigns, even as a mix of new and existing banking trojans are increasingly targeting Android devices to conduct on-device fraud. "Just in the first five months of 2022 there has been an increase of more than 40% in malware families that abuse Android OS to perform fraud using the device itself, making it almost impossible to detect them using traditional fraud scoring engines."
Ransomware, supply-chain threats and how organizations and their employees are their own worst enemy when it comes to security are some of the key takeaways of Verizon's annual report on the last 12 months of cyber-attacks. Some findings seem consistent with what the report has highlighted since its inception in 2008, one security professional observed.
Indian IT shops have been handed another extraordinarily short deadline within which to perform significant infosec work. MII boards must sign off on lists of critical systems.
A favorite of cybercriminals and nation states, ransomware incidents increase again. The use of ransomware to extort money increased 13% in 2021 compared to 2020, according to the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, now in its 15th year.
The 2022 SaaS Security Survey Report, in collaboration with CSA, examines the state of SaaS security as seen in the eyes of CISOs and security professionals in today's enterprises. The report gathers anonymous responses from 340 CSA members to examine not only the growing risks in SaaS security but also how different organizations are currently working to secure themselves.
The RTB industry was worth more than $117 billion last year, the ICCL report said. Information shared with advertisers can include nearly anything that would help them better target ads, and those advertisers bid on the ad space based on the information the ad network provides.
According to a Splashtop's report, that has come at a cost as 65% of IT help desk teams throughout the U.S are reporting an increase in the number of team members reporting unsustainable levels of stress. "With many employees working remotely on a regular basis, IT and help desk staff face higher ticket volumes, more diverse set of devices to support, and greater security challenges," said Philip Sheu, CTO at Splashtop.
According to Kaspersky in a new report, cybercriminals continue to use ransomware to threaten nationwide retailers and enterprises, as old malware variants come back while new ones develop. A careful technological and geopolitical analysis from late 2021 and 2022 brings Kaspersky to list a few new trends in ransomware.
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