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Boss, how do you feel about cybersecurity?
SophosNews

Sophos has published a whitepaper on a management study in DACH: Boss, how do you feel about cyber security?. How present is the topic of IT security in the management levels of companies? How is the security awareness of the management level in the central industries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland - Sophos has dealt intensively with this previously little asked topic in the last six months. IT personnel were explicitly excluded from this study. Survey of the management level With the help of the study, which the market research institute Ipsos carried out for Sophos, the effects of international…

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71 billion detected attacks on RDP remote access in just 18 months
Eset_News

As an ESET white paper shows, ransomware is behind 71 billion RDP remote access attacks in just 18 months. Despite new attack tactics, organizations can defend themselves effectively. The IT security manufacturer ESET has published a new white paper on ransomware. "Ransomware: Enterprises Targeted by Malware and Manipulation" explores how dangerous the encryption Trojan has become due to criminals' technical and psychological innovations. How can companies best protect themselves? What are the most common techniques used by hackers? The report provides answers to the most pressing questions that companies and their IT managers...

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Whitepaper: MVISION CNAPP for Multi-Clouds
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

MVISION CNAPP - A central platform for multi-cloud environments. With the pandemic as a catalyst, companies are forced to digital transformation. A suitable white paper. MVISION CNAPP provides context to applications and data to consolidate cloud security posture management (CSPM, cloud security management) for public cloud infrastructures and cloud workload protection platform (CWPP, protection platform for cloud workloads) and thus hosts and workloads, including VMs , Containers and serverless computing. Infrastructure-as-a-Service Study In a study for the McAfee report on the implementation of IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) and its risks, 76% of the companies surveyed stated that they have several IaaS providers ...

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Security support measures for SMEs
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

New Baramundi whitepaper provides valuable information: Let the state promote IT security. The EU, federal and state governments provide funding of up to 500.000 euros. Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are now faced with the question of how they can implement a comprehensive security strategy. SMEs in particular are increasingly targeted by cyber criminals who target their corporate network - with sometimes devastating financial, operational and legal consequences. In order to support companies in hedging against these risks in times of scarce resources, the Augsburg-based software specialist Baramundi has published a new white paper on the topic ...

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Cyber ​​espionage: APT attack on Asian authorities
Bitdefender_News

How cyber espionage works: Bitdefender analyzes APT attack on Southeast Asian authorities. Bitdefender's security researchers took a closer look at a complex and targeted chain of attacks by organized APT hackers. They were able to trace a cyber espionage process in detail. Specifically, it concerns attacks on government organizations in Southeast Asia, which have presumably been carried out since 2018. The perpetrators allegedly wanted to divert information about national security interests as well as other sensitive data and engage in industrial espionage. In a whitepaper, the Bitdefender specialists present an in-depth analysis of the techniques used and their interaction, as well as a chronological breakdown of the attack chain. 200 systems ...

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The botnet IPStorm offers itself as an anonymization service
Bitdefender_News

The botnet IPStorm, consisting of over 9000 hacked devices, is now offered as a completely open anonymization service. Bitdefender's experts provide detailed insights into the inner workings of the botnet. Since its discovery in June 2019, Bitdefender security researchers have been monitoring the development cycle of the Interplanetary Storm botnet, which consists of more than 9000 hacked devices. IPStorm basically has a complex modular infrastructure, the operators have the best development practices and are very familiar with hiding management nodes. The botnet is constantly updated and has been used as a paid anonymization service for some time now. In its…

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