In order for companies to thrive in 2019, business leaders need to prepare for a great number of cyberthreats and other risks. According to Chloe Demrovsky, CEO of Disaster Recovery Institutce International (DRI), the most important risks include the potential start of a new worldwide financial crisis; steep fines companies may need

The latest edition of Check Point’s Most Wanted Malware list indicates that cryptojackers – malware that covertly mines cryptocurrency on infected devices – remain the most prevalent type of malware. The four highest entries are all cryptojackers, with Coinhive clinching the top spot once again. A notable newcomer on the

Research by CrowdStrike and FireEye sheds light on the success and modus operandi of Grim Spider, the threat group behind Ryuk ransomware. Over the last six months, Grim Spider has only gone after enterprises, a strategy that seems to be paying off, since the threat actors have already earned about $3,7 million

US healthcare organizations (HCOs) are highly popular targets for cyberattacks for two reasons. First of all, HCOs are easy to breach, since a majority of them lack a proper cybersecurity program based on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and many organizations use poorly secured medical internet of things (IoT) devices. Secondly, threat actors

New research by Tenable has found serious vulnerabilities affecting PremiSys, a building access control system by US firm IDenticard that is used by tens of thousands of government agencies, schools, hospitals and companies around the world. The various vulnerabilities include the presence of a hard-coded backdoor account that can allow attackers to create fake

According to new research by Radware, an average cyberattack now costs over $1 million. If only exact calculations of costs for organziations are taken into account and estimates are omitted, the average cost of an attack is $1.67M. The most reported negative consequences of suffering a cyberattack are operational disruption and

The rapid proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies has spawned an AI arms race that makes the weaponization of AI seem inevitable. However, Jayshree Pandya, CEO of Risk Group LLC, argues that the development of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) will have serious implications that extend beyond national security and international conflict,

New research shows that the massive increase in government debt in the US and other countries since the financial crisis of 2007-2009, has created a situation in which a targeted cyber attack could propel the global economy into crisis. The weak link that threat actors could attack to seriously damage the

Cybercrime is a booming economy estimated to cost the world $600bn per year. Naturally, the rise of cybercrime is connected to the ever-increasing importance of the Internet in modern life. However, one major reason for the success of cyber criminals is the fact that very few people receive proper security

A new report by PwC among 3,000 business leaders across 81 territories shows that a majority of organizations worldwide are falling short when it comes to their resilience against cyberattacks. Only 39% of the respondents in the survey were confident about the cybersecurity controls in place in their firm. Just about half