According to a new Bitdefender survey, 64% of cybersecurity professionals are considering a shift to a new job in the sector within the next 12 months.
The 2024 Cybersecurity Assessment Report also discovered that 57% of respondents experienced a data breach in the last 12 months, mainly in the UK, Germany, and Singapore.
A US-led law enforcement sting operation against the global ‘911 S5 botnet’ network was a major success.
The 911 S5 botnet network of millions of compromised Windows computers was used to facilitate cyber-attacks, fraud, and child exploitation, among other illicit activities.
The ‘INC Ransom’ ransomware group publicly threatened to release three terabytes of NHS Scotland sensitive patient and staff data, after publishing a smaller sample size proving the viability of the threat.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway’s efforts to prevent the attack from being repeated are underway in collaboration with Police Scotland and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
Despite the hype of AI in cybersecurity, a PwC survey revealed that 77% of CEOs still believe AI increases the risk of breaches rather than boosts cybersecurity.
The PwC survey interviewed 4,700 executives globally, the majority of whom are CEOs. The survey also found that 63% of respondents believed AI to be a misinformation risk, causing a barrier for legal and reputational damage stemming from generative AI.
The UK’s Newsquest Media Group reported a cyberattack that disrupted the company’s websites and apps to the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on Monday, December 11th.
The UK media company with over 250 local news sites’ stated that the series of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks disrupted the reading experience of an estimated 48 million monthly readers.
Chinese hacker group Budworm has been using cyber-espionage malware to target a telecommunications company in the Middle East and an Asian government organization.
Reports say attacks have been orchestrated through a new variant of the group’s SysUpdate backdoor malware, and that telecommunication companies have become a common target for hacking groups.
A malicious malware attack targeting Asia’s power grid has been reported.
Called ShadowPad or PoisonPlug the malware allows for credential theft. Reports allege the malware to be the work of novel threat operation RedFly.
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