Newsletter: Acronis H1 2024 Cyberthreats Report Highlights a 293% Surge in Email Attacks

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Acronis, a global leader in cybersecurity and data protection, shared new research findings from the first half of 2024 in its biannual cyberthreats report by Acronis Threat Research Unit. Titled, “Acronis Cyberthreats Report H1 2024: Email attacks surge 293%, new ransomware groups emerge,” the report leverages over one million unique Windows endpoints from 15 key countries around the world to bring awareness to global trends in the cybersecurity industry. Most notably, the report found that email attacks have seen a 293% surge when compared to the same period in 2023. The number of ransomware detections were also on the rise, increasing 32% from Q4 2023 to Q1 2024.

Newsletter: Kaspersky: Response time to high-severity incidents reduced by 17%

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Every year Kaspersky prepares a report based on the results of the analysis of MDR incidents identified by the Kaspersky SOC team. In this report, experts highlight incidents that require action from customers, divided them into high, medium and low-severity types. High-severity incidents mean human-driven attacks, or malware threats that have a significant impact on the customer’s IT systems. Medium-severity incidents have no evidence of direct human involvement in the attack, but may affect the customer’s infrastructure without severe consequences, while low-severity incidents do not affect customer’s IT systems, but require a number of precautionary measures to be taken.

Newsletter: Acronis End-of-Year Cyberthreats Report Finds Average Cost of Data Breaches Expected to Surpass $5 Million Per Incident in 2023

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 Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, has released its latest cyberthreats and trends report for the second half of 2022 which found that phishing and the use of MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) fatigue attacks, an extremely effective method used in high-profile breaches, are on the rise. Conducted by the Acronis Cyber Protection Operation Center, the report provides an in-depth analysis of the cyberthreat landscape including ransomware threats, phishing, malicious websites, software vulnerabilities and a security forecast for 2023.

Kaspersky discovers an almost 800% increase on ransomware attacks in 2020

05/09/21 09:32:04 PM

Kasperksy has reported that ransomware attacks that took place during a two-year stretch have increased nearly eightfold.

Kaspersky introduces initiative to protect modern cars from threats of cyber-hijacking

01/24/2021 12:54:45 PM

Aside from protecting people and businesses, Kasperksy has also launched an initiative to protect vehicles, too.

DDoS attacks nearly-tripled for Q2 of 2019

08/23/2020 01:18:23 AM

There's no such thing as summer vacation for cybercriminals as Kaspersky has found out that DDoS Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in the second quarter of 2020 increased for almost thrice in comparison to the same period in 2019. 

DDoS attacks up this 3Q of 2019

11/16/2019 03:41:52 PM

The cyber-rampage continues. 

The number of DDoS attacks in the third quarter of 2019 rose by a third, compared to the previous period (30 percentage points) and Q3 2018 (32 percentage points).