StorageCraft research reveals rampant data growth, and inadequate IT infrastructures are a source of global concern and risk.More

Financial losses to cyber-attacks in New Zealand reported between 1 April and 30 June were $6.5 million, up from the $1.7 million reported in the previous quarter. More

Medical devices include all servers, computers, mobiles and tablets, IoT gadgets, and hospital machines that are connected to the internet inside a healthcare facility.More

In just a three month period this year, New Zealanders reported more than 1000 cybersecurity incidents and financial losses of $6.5 million to CERT NZ.More

McAfee Labs saw an average of 504 new threats per minute in Q1 and a resurgence of ransomware along with changes in campaign execution and code.More

According to Kaspersky data, 232,292 unique users were targeted by such attacks – 46% more than a year ago, in Q2 2018 (158,921).More

Cyber-adversaries are becoming more sophisticated in their obfuscation and anti-analysis practices to avoid detection.More

Ransomware attackers are targeting large, ill-prepared public and private organisations with easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities.More

“Agreeing to pay a ransom demand isn’t conducive to long-term security, and emboldens cyber criminals to continue to use this method.”More

Cryptolocker malware and ransomware is increasing at a rapid rate, with these threats rising 167% over the previous quarter.More

The decryptor neutralises the latest versions of GandCrab – the most prolific families of file-encrypting malware to date.More

“The potential, real-world effect cyberattacks can have on healthcare organisations and patients is substantial.”More

While there are occasionally very advanced new threats, these are massively outnumbered by common-or-garden email fraud, ransomware attacks and well-worn old exploits.More

Companies can’t see what’s happening on their endpoint devices, leaving them struggling to prevent attacks or even knowing how and when they happened.More

This month marks a special anniversary – two years since one of the world’s most destructive pieces of ransomware ever caused chaos.More

Cryptocurrency malware is alive and well across the globe – but although New Zealand is one of the countries least at risk of cyber threats, nobody should become complacent.More

The report found that ransomware is seeing a 325% increase from previous year, and is the fourth-most detected threat against businesses in APAC.More

Cybersecurity remains a top business priority as the estimated number of undetected security breaches grows.More

"Our first Singaporean threat report indicates that organisations in Singapore are under intense pressure from escalating cyberattacks."More

Speed and effectiveness are part of the reason for ransomware’s ongoing appeal to the unscrupulous. More

The report analyses survey results from different industries, organisation sizes and IT team sizes.More

“As cyberattacks continue to increase in frequency and sophistication, understanding prevalent cyberthreats and how to limit their impact has become an imperative.” More

“IT systems in most business areas are impacted and Hydro is switching to manual operations as far as possible.”More

ESET’s Security Days Conference recently took place to go over the current threat environment and what to look out for next.More