Chief Cybersecurity Officer
Blackhole Exploit Kit introduced the lucrative but hazardous exploit-kit-ransomware combo with CryptoLocker back in 2013. Soon after, other exploit kits, like Angler, Neutrino, Magnitude, and Rig, followed suit. At least 18 percent of known ransomware families now arrive via exploit kits. Note, though, that exploit kits have been distributing a plethora of threats since as…
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Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes have been growing exponentially since 2013. Since January 2015 alone, according to a June 2016 public service announcement from the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there has been a 1,300 percent increase in losses. These schemes are quite simple in execution and are all focused on one thing –…
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Cybercrime as a Service (CaaS) has been a growing trend throughout Deep Web forums for several years. Inexperienced and, quite frankly, lazy cybercriminals can purchase CaaS tools and services from more advanced operators to launch their own malware, spam, phishing and other malicious campaigns at the click of a button. These ready-made tool kits require…
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We’ve heard for some time how each year is going to be the “Year of Cloud Computing,” but only in 2015 did we really see the momentum start to build in the public sector since the Cloud First Strategy was announced in 2011. We expect cloud adoption to grow exponentially over the next five years…
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Cyber extortion attacks on enterprises have grown exponentially in the last year and the ransomware families behind them have grown at a similar pace. We have blocked more than 100 million since October 2015. New families alone have grown 100% in the first six months of 2016, and we have detected and blocked more than 50 new…
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Governments around the world are facing an increasing challenge to contain the threat from cyberspace. This is especially the case in the U.S.. Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, is now claiming that cyber attacks have surpassed terrorism to become the number one challenge to national security. With this backdrop, it’s important that the U.S….
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Over the last 20 years, technology advancements, globalization and the Internet have revolutionized business practices and efficiency. Supply chain management is one of the areas that has benefitted most, as companies can now work with suppliers and business partners around the world. The bad news is the same holds true for cybercriminals and their networks…
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Attracting the best and brightest in the field, the annual RSA Conference plays an important role in keeping security professionals across the globe connected and educated. Last week, we witnessed several cybersecurity trends and developments including the federal government’s involvement with security, the ease of automotive hacking in modern vehicles, potential threats targeting connected medical…
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Successful cyber attacks against critical infrastructure have been steadily increasing in frequency and complexity over the last ten years. In our 2015 “Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructures in Americas” report, more than 575 public and private owner operators from 20 countries were surveyed, and the results were beyond eye-opening. Fifty-three percent said critical infrastructure (CI)…
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Data. It has become the true currency that nations, businesses and now consumers depend on daily. After all, this is not new. Information is power and always has been. Timely and accurate information has been sought and attained by nations to become powerful both economically and militarily, and by businesses to profit and succeed. Historically,…
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