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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Issues range from SaaS infections  to SMBs that don’t report ransomware attacks to the appropriate authorities, and much more.

Recorded Future's Allan Liska looks at the past big ransomware attacks thus far to predict what's coming this year.

The supply chain creates a hole that cybercriminals can exploit by first infiltrating the partner.

The free decryption tool for Windows users won’t work for everyone.

LogRhythm’s predictions paint a sombre picture for the state of cybersecurity in 2019.

“In a nutshell, cybercriminals are less focused on volume and more focused on value."

One Identity and Secureworks executives Alex Tilley and Serkan Cetin have released what they see coming for cybersecurity in 2019.

SonicWall’s Capture Labs threat researchers recorded 28 times more ransomware attacks on Black Friday compared to last year.

A worldwide spate of spam emails claiming there is a bomb in the recipient’s building is almost certainly a hoax.

Over 50% of respondents reported that 100 days of dwell time or more was representative of their organisation.

The report explores changes in the threat landscape over the past year, uncovering trends and how they are expected to impact cybersecurity in 2019.

The new capabilities will help to prevent targeted, manual cyber attacks and exploits from further infiltrating a compromised network.

“Paying the attackers and then keeping quiet about it afterwards was not, in our view, an appropriate response to the cyber attack."