FortiGuard stories

FortiGuard Labs observed a decline in organisations detecting ransomware, significant activity among APT groups, a shift in MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and more.

Ransomware threats remain at peak levels with no evidence of slowing down globally with new variants enabled by Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS).

"As cybercrime converges with advanced persistent threat methods, cybercriminals are finding ways to weaponise new technologies at scale to enable more disruption and destruction."

Exploit trends demonstrate the endpoint remains a target as work-from-anywhere continues, according to a new report.

“We are seeing an increase in effective and destructive cyber attacks affecting thousands of organisations in a single incident creating an important inflection point for the war on cyber crime."

Former RAAF cyber warfare officer Mark Robson has been appointed as senior tactical threat analyst in FortiGuard’s managed detection and response team, FortiResponder.

Adversaries are highly adaptable as they conduct sophisticated attacks, particularly against remote workers, digital supply chains, and core networks.

Maiden will focus specifically on threat intelligence sharing for organisations across ANZ, so that those organisations may protect their businesses from existing and emerging cyber threats.

Keeping your network safe is a full-time job and requires massive resources - Fortinet works day and night to keep your network secure.

Secure Wi-Fi and BYOD have fast become key drivers for organisations to upgrade to Fortinet’s FortiGate Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW).

As the number of devices connected to the network increase, security vendors need to start educating their clients.

"Every hole they find is one less vulnerability for the hackers to exploit..."

Transparency is the new mantra for online security and the channel has a key role to play, says Richard Henderson, security strategist with Fortinet’s FortiGuard Threat Research and Response Labs.