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Cyber ​​attacks increase by 104 percent in 2023
March 25, 2024
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Cyber ​​attacks increase by 104 percent in 2023

A cybersecurity company has taken a look at last year's threat landscape. The results provide critical insight into the diverse challenges and help IT security teams combat cyberattacks in 2024. The new report "The Anatomy of Cybersecurity: A Dissection of 2023's Attack Landscape" shows that energy utilities (up over 200 percent) and Manufacturing (up 165 percent) was the most vulnerable sector. Attack attempts peaked in July, with communications, imaging and production equipment increasingly affected during this period. Cyber ​​attacks and vulnerabilities have...

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Cyber ​​attack on healthcare platform in the USA
March 16, 2024
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Cyber ​​attack on healthcare platform in the USA

A devastating cyber attack recently occurred on the US payment service Change Healthcare, which is part of the UnitedHealth Group. Many healthcare organizations have been cut off from the platform they rely on for patient claims submission and payment. While the outage does not appear to affect systems that provide direct, critical care to patients, it did expose a vulnerability that affects the entire U.S. healthcare system. The cyberattack on Change Healthcare reveals the risk of devastating ripple effects and widespread vulnerabilities across the healthcare industry. This attack shows the scope of…

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Threat potential from state actors
21. February 2024
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Threat potential from state actors

The extent of the current threat situation is illustrated by a cyber attack that recently occurred in Ukraine. According to Ukraine's State Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA), an unnamed state-owned company was compromised, infecting around 2.000 computers with the DIRTYMOE (PURPLEFOX) malware. It is a modular malware that allows attackers remote access and is primarily used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The exact impact on Ukrainian operations was not disclosed. Globally, the number of cyberattack attempts increased by more than 2023 in 104…

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NIS2 for the security of the industrial sector
July 14, 2023
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NIS2 for the security of the industrial sector

Manufacturing is a crucial part of the European economy and encompasses many areas from small-scale production to large-scale industrial processes. NIS2 aims to reduce cybercrime losses. As the sector becomes more digitized and connected, it faces increasing cybersecurity risks that could have serious consequences for public health and safety. To address these risks, the NIS2 directive classifies manufacturing organizations as critical entities and establishes new cybersecurity requirements that must now be met. The great relevance of…

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Identified: Risky OT and ICS devices in KRITIS
June 20, 2023
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Armis identifies and publishes a study on the most risky OT and ICS devices in critical infrastructure. It shows the threats to critical infrastructure in manufacturing, utilities and transportation. Data analyzed by the Armis Asset Intelligence and Security platform, which monitors more than three billion assets, revealed that the operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) devices that pose the greatest risk to these industries are technical workstations , SCADA servers, automation servers, data historians and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Prioritization and vulnerability management remain an issue Research found that technical workstations…

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