cyberattacks – The TechBriefs

Concealing cyberattacks risks penalties and harms trust

Last month Bitdefender revealed that 70 percent of UK CISO have faced pressure to conceal security incidents, cyberattacks and breaches. […]

DDoS attacks dominate threats to critical infrastructure

New research from NETSCOUT looking at the DDoS attack landscape shows that this method has evolved into a precision-guided weapon […]

Malicious URLs overtake attachments as top email threat

Cybercriminals increasingly favor malicious URLs over attachments, as they are easier to disguise and more likely to evade detection, according […]

Threat actors move to smaller more persistent attacks

Threat actors are favoring smaller, persistent attacks under 100,000 requests per second according to a new report. This shift signals […]

Hackers weaponize GenAI to boost cyberattacks

Adversaries are weaponizing GenAI to scale operations and accelerate cyberattacks — as well as increasingly targeting the autonomous AI agents […]

83 percent of credential stuffing campaigns target APIs

According to new research from Radware 83 percent of credential stuffing campaigns include explicit API-targeting techniques. The report shows a […]

What’s behind the recent rise in identity-based attacks? [Q&A]

Cybercriminals are increasingly using sophisticated identity-based attacks (phishing, social engineering, leveraging compromised credentials) to gain access as trusted users and […]

European manufacturers face critical vulnerabilities

The manufacturing industry is the most targeted industry for cyberattacks and this has has now been the case for four […]

Why exposure validation is essential to cybersecurity resilience [Q&A]

Cybersecurity teams are often overwhelmed by an endless backlog of vulnerabilities, but not all of them are high risk. Traditional […]

56 percent of security incidents caused by lack of MFA

Valid account credentials — with no MFA in place to protect the organization should they bemisused — are still by […]