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NZ's Cyber Resilience Framework to be evolving and potentially automated

The government's already putting $2.4 million into the Cyber Resilience Framework in its initial stages, what is it and why is it important?.

By Jessie Chiang • 6 min read • Wed, 17th Aug 2022

Global Stories

Cyber attacks stories

Malware

Ransomware variants almost double in six months – FortiGuard

Exploit trends demonstrate the endpoint remains a target as work-from-anywhere continues, according to a new report.

By Shannon Williams • 7 min read • Mon, 22nd Aug 2022

Malware

Top security threats for July 2022 revealed in new report

Securonix Threat Labs has been keeping an eye on each and every threat impacting customers and is aware of widespread campaigns.

By Shannon Williams • 7 min read • Fri, 19th Aug 2022

Distributed Denial of Service

DDoS activity rises dramatically - Radware report

The first six months of 2022 were marked by a significant increase in DDoS activity across the globe, according to a new report.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Thu, 18th Aug 2022

Cybersecurity

8x more users attacked via old Microsoft Office vulnerability in Q2

Exploits for vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office have surged, accounting for 82% of total exploits in Q2 2022, according to Kaspersky.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Wed, 17th Aug 2022

EduTech

Claroty research unveils new attack that targets PLCs

Claroty has released research detailing a new type of cyber-attack, one that weaponises programmable logic controllers (PLCs).

By Mitchell Hageman • 2 min read • Tue, 16th Aug 2022

Advanced Persistent Threat Protection

HelpSystems shines light on impact of response-based threats

Response-based attacks targeting corporate inboxes have climbed to their highest volume since 2020, representing 41% of all email-based scams.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 16th Aug 2022

EduTech

Education sector seeing highest volumes of cyber attacks

When breaking down the numbers to education attacks by region in July 2022, ANZ was the most heavily attacked.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Fri, 12th Aug 2022

Exploits

Dramatic uptick in threat activity with exploits growing nearly 150%

Threat activity has spiked in Q2 2022, with malware events rising by 25%, botnets doubling, and exploit activity growing almost 150%, says Nuspire's report.

By Shannon Williams • 2 min read • Thu, 11th Aug 2022

Unified Communications

Organisations exposing highly sensitive protocols to public internet

More than 60% of organisations expose remote control protocol SSH to the public internet, while 36% of organisations expose the insecure FTP protocol.

By Shannon Williams • 7 min read • Thu, 11th Aug 2022

Okta

High level of Customer Identity & Access Management adoption

The study from Okta revealed that the pandemic has either accelerated or highlighted the need for digital-first strategies.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Wed, 10th Aug 2022

Malware

Hive, LockBit, BlackCat ransomware gangs attack same network

Each ransomware gang left its own ransom demand, and some of the files were triple encrypted, according to a new report from Sophos.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Wed, 10th Aug 2022

EduTech

The importance of stopping identity sprawl for cybersecurity

Most cyberattacks are caused by compromised credentials, according to the 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report.

By Serkan Cetin • 5 min read • Wed, 10th Aug 2022

Firewalls

Palo Alto Networks responds to rise in threats with MDR service

Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response is a new service that can offer continuous 24/7 threat detection, investigation and response.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 9th Aug 2022

Malware

Research shows attacks on the gaming industry are getting worse

Web application attacks in the gaming sector have grown by 167% from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, according to new research from Akamai.

By Mitchell Hageman • 3 min read • Mon, 8th Aug 2022

DevOps

Security gaps in APIs plague organisations - study

Together, the findings highlight that existing solutions and API security tactics focused on shift-left strategies are failing to adequately protect APIs.

By Catherine Knowles • 6 min read • Thu, 4th Aug 2022