Cyber Attacks
An increase in Cyber Attacks witnessed by Trend Micro
Japan-based Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro has revealed that its Cyber Threat report that at least 8 billion cyber threats were blocked in the first two months of the year 2020. And the enterprise security offering software company has highlighted in its report that most of the attacks were related to Ransomware and Business Email Compromise(BEC). […]
Japan to invest $237.12 million in Artificial Intelligence to counter Cyber Attacks
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) of Japan has confirmed that it is going to invest over 25.6 billion Yen or $237.12 million in USD to develop Artificial Intelligence-based tools to counter cyber attacks. Japan aims to develop an all-inclusive AI system that can detect malevolent emails, respond to cyberattacks in an automated way through machine […]
Three federal agencies to defend energy infrastructure from Cyber Attacks
The Energy infrastructure in the United States from now on will be defended by the Departments of Energy and Homeland Security and Department of Defense. These three agencies on a joint note have worked on a memorandum to work on preventive measures where cyber threat indicators and cyber defense capabilities will be outlined to secure […]
Cyberspace Solarium Commission predicts a Catastrophic Cyber Attack on the US
A year-long investigation taken up by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission has predicted that the United States is on the verge of getting hit by a Catastrophic Cyber Attack. The report says that the nation led by Donald Trump is not only vulnerable to hackers but is also susceptible to the millions of daily intrusions that […]
Over 11 million cyber-attacks launched from Servers operating in Singapore
Singapore which is known as a digital hub of Asia is in news for all wrong reasons these days. A study conducted by Kaspersky says that over 11 million cyber attacks were launched from the servers operating in the scenic city in 2019. However, the research also claims that there was a dip in the […]
Mexico and Australian Governments tackling Cyber Attacks
Mexico’s economic ministry has made it official that it is has detected malevolent server activity on its servers on Sunday this week. But assured that no sensitive information was compromised in the incident and all security measures were beefed up to prevent such incidents in the future. Readers of Cybersecurity Insiders have to notify a […]
Windows and Linux Servers globally are vulnerable to Cyber Attacks
Millions of servers running on Windows and Linux operating systems are reported to be vulnerable to cyber-attacks. And this was concluded in a research carried out by researchers from Eclypsium- a company offering Enterprise Firmware Security. Going deep into the facts, the security researchers have discovered that the vulnerability is being created due to […]
IBM says more than 8.5 billion records were leaked in Cyber Attacks
According to IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2020, more than 8.5 billion records were leaked in cyber attacks in 2019. And out of them over 7 billion records were accessed by hackers due to misconfigured cloud servers and human errors. IBM’s report also highlights the fact that hacking techniques have evolved in the past few […]
Boss of Cybersecurity Firm launches DDoS Cyber Attacks on other companies
A co-founder of a Cybersecurity firm is said to have admitted to committing a cybercrime of hiring hackers to carry out cyberattacks against other companies. The culprit in a discussion is Tucker Preston from Georgia who confessed before the legal attorney that he hired threat actors to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks between […]
Google trending news headlines related to Cybersecurity
Firstly, the news headlines which are trending on Google and related to Cybersecurity happens to be an agreement made between Estonia and the United States. According to sources, both countries have recently signed an agreement to share cyber threat intelligence in order to automate the data exchange related to cyber threats. A company named Cybernetica […]
