Skills gaps leaving orgs exposed to more cyber risk
24 March, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingSome 68% of organisations worldwide are facing additional cyber risks due to the ongoing cybersecurity skills shortage, according to Fortinet.
Sophos explores using ChatGPT to tackle cyberthreats
22 March, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingResearch from Sophos indicates that the generative AI technology behind ChatGPT can be used to combat, as well as merely augment, cyber attacks.
Cyber attacks against Ukraine shift to NATO countries
01 March, 2023New data from Check Point Research shows that cyber warfare has escalated in line with the Russia–Ukraine war.
Ransomware victims who pay subsidise future attacks
01 March, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingOnly 10% of ransomware victims pay up, but by doing so they are subsidising the cost of nine future attacks, according to research from Trend Micro.
1 in 4 ANZ orgs have covered up a cyber attack
27 February, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingSome 25% of security and IT decision-makers from ANZ admit that their organisation has knowingly concealed a cyber attack from the public, research suggests.
The rise of digilantism: we don't need another hero
17 February, 2023 by Roger Spence, Client Director, TesserentTempted to act as 'cyber Batman', seek out cybercriminals and bring them to justice? That's not the role of private enterprise.
Pig butchering scams on the rise
16 February, 2023Sophos has released details of two expansive pig butchering scams operating that directly targeted the organisation's principal threat researcher, Sean Gallagher.
Scam crypto app makes it to Apple App Store
09 February, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe first fake crypto apps to make it past Apple’s security protocols to list on the Apple App Store have been discovered and detailed by security firm Sophos.
Last year's data breaches shook Australian businesses
08 February, 2023 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingIn the wake of 2022's high-profile data breaches, the majority of Australian business leaders admit to not having adequately invested in cybersecurity.
Why making ransomware payments illegal could backfire
06 February, 2023 by Johnny Yeo, Solutions Architect at ZscalerThe government is considering banning ransomware payments — could the move simply embolden cybercriminals?
Afterpay reduces fraud risk with advanced machine learning
03 February, 2023Buy now, pay later (BNPL) business Afterpay is using the Cloudera Data Platform to run analytics for real-time fraud detection on millions of transactions.
Search leads to cybercriminal scam creator
17 January, 2023Cybersecurity vendor Sophos said it has uncovered the likely offender behind an extensive scheme designed to scam cybercriminals.
Cybercriminals scamming each other out of millions
13 December, 2022 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingA new report from Sophos details a hidden sub-economy involving scammers targeting each other with the scams they also unleash on the public.
Could 2023 be the year of the 'cyberdemic'?
09 December, 2022"Probably", according to Garrett O’Hara, APAC Field CTO at cloud cybersecurity services vendor Mimecast.
Predicting the future of security in 2023 and beyond
08 December, 2022 by DigiCertFrom Quantum to Code Signing, DNS tools to Digital Identity, the complexity of the cybersecurity landscape grows by the day. Here's our predictions for 2023.
