Data collected in 2017 shows that attacks like ransomware and cryptojacking are easily bypassing legacy security solutions due to lax businesses.

Attendees at this year’s Black Hat Asia conference are wary of what’s ahead from some of the world’s most notorious countries behind cyber attacks.

“Possible malicious behavior on an infected robot includes complete interruptions in service, the use of curse words, even doing violent movements."

Fortinet says that stenography as an attack vector hasn’t had too much visibility in the last several years but it could be the start of a resurgence.

Here are three questions every security leader can focus on to make automation a reality within their organisation.

A new report from SonicWall has shed light on the current threat landscape with the company recording an astonishing 9.32b malware attacks in 2017.

Email serves as an organisations’ communicative lifeblood, thus making it the most critical vector for an assortment of threats.

Managed security services provider Proficio and cybersecurity firm CyberSight are joining forces to offer anti-ransomware through SOC-as-a-Service.

Trend Micro says cybercriminals are becoming more business-minded and are likely to target organisations that are trying to comply with GDPR.

These state-sponsored attacks include what the organisation refers to as the ‘trickle-down effect’.

More than 205 billion emails are sent and received every day with that number increasing every year - something hackers are keenly aware of.

All too often organisations believe that spam filters are sufficient or that employees can always tell the difference.

Barracuda announced the availability of its new platform that provides advanced threat trends in real time - along with some shocking findings.

The research showed that 44% of scanned organisations had some form of malware in at least one of their cloud applications.

“Ransomware is not a lightning strike – it can happen again and again to the same organisation."

Asia Pacific is a hotspot for ransomware, hijackers, spyware and worms and one security expert believes that the region is becoming a major target.

The creators of the Dridex banking Trojan are also responsible for FriedEx (also known as BitPaymer), a ransomware that was discovered in mid-2017.

27.2% of Australians say they don’t know how they protect their data and 46.6% don’t know what ransomware is.

Some might think that by now organisations would have come to a point where they are a step ahead of criminals.

According to the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team, there were 6506 security incidents reported last year - a 7% increase since 2017.

The generally perilous state of affairs in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) arena presents a host of challenges of its own.

Since the infamous CryptoLocker first appeared in 2013, we’ve seen a huge wave of file-encrypting ransomware variants extorting money.

These packages allow individuals with little technical skill, to attack businesses and individuals with relative ease.

​Given the digital plague around the world in 2017, it would be unseemly not to give ransomware its own dedicated piece.