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More than half (53%) of respondents said attacks increased during the pandemic and 84% have experienced a significant security incident in the past two years. The most common type of attack is email compromise (42%), followed by data breach (39%), mobile malware (37%), DDoS attack (36%), phishing (33%), ransomware (31%), and regulatory compliance violation (28%). More than 40% said the primary cost of security incidents was the IT time and personnel needed to remediate them. Other costs included lost productivity (36%), disruptions to applications and systems (35%), disruption to business pro...

Cloud Compromise Costs Organizations $6.2M Per Year Organizations reported an average of 19 cloud-based compromises in the past year, but most don't evaluate the security of SaaS apps before deployment. Cloud compromise is expensive, and its costs continue to rise. A new report finds compromised cloud accounts led to an average financial loss of $6.2 million for surveyed organizations, or an average of 3.5% of their total revenues over the past 12 months. To learn more about how businesses protect confidential data in the cloud, the Ponemon Institute, commissioned by Proofpoint, surveyed 662 ...

Security researchers discuss attackers' evolving methodologies in business email compromise and phishing campaigns.

PDF Criminals began to scan the Internet for vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers within five minutes of the disclosure of critical zero-day flaws patched in early March, researchers report. In the "2021 Cortex Xpanse Attack Surface Threat Report, " Palo Alto Networks researchers examine threat data from 50 organizations, and some 50 million IP addresses, collected in the first quarter. Their analysis reveals attackers scan to inventory vulnerable Internet assets once per hour and even more often — within 15 minutes or less — following the disclosure of CVEs. "When an exploit is publishe...

Researchers examine English- and Russian-language underground exploits to track how exploits are advertised and sold. RSA CONFERENCE 2021 – Microsoft products accounted for 47% of the CVEs that cybercriminals request across underground forums, according to researchers who conducted a yearlong study into the exploit market. The research spanned more than 600 English and Russian language forums, said Mayra Rosario Fuentes, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, who presented some of the findings in her RSA Conference talk "Tales from the Underground: The Vulnerability Weaponization Lifecy...