Sophos news stories

Research finds that there has been a 36% increase in cyber attack dwell time, with a median intruder dwell time of 15 days in 2021 versus 11 days in 2020.

New research has revealed a 94% increase in ransomware attacks on the organisations within the healthcare sector during 2021. 

Sophos has announced the winners of its Australia and New Zealand Partner Awards for 2022, including Somerville as its Partner of the Year.

Next-generation cybersecurity firm Sophos has released its annual survey and review of real-world ransomware experiences in the State of Ransomware 2022.

In 2021, 80% of Australian organisations responding to the Sophos State of Ransomware study reported being hit by ransomware. 

The company earned the highest overall customer rating among vendors with at least 150 verified customer reviews.

"The proportion of victims paying up also continues to increase, even when they may have other options available."

Sophos has unveiled advancements to Sophos Cloud Workload Protection, including new Linux host and container security capabilities. 

Sophos' endpoint products have been ranked top in protection and false-positive tests for enterprise, small businesses, and consumers.

A recent survey report by Sophos has revealed many significant security challenges that Australian businesses are facing and will continue to face going forward.

Attackers are using the Log4Shell vulnerability to deliver backdoors and profiling scripts to unpatched VMware Horizon servers.

Since the pandemic began, there has been a concerning surge in crypto and investment related scams in Australia, in particular, a spike in dating and romance scams.

A new international cryptocurrency trading scam called CryptoRom targets iPhone and Android users through popular dating apps.

Sophos has launched Sophos ZTNA, a zero trust network access (ZTNA) offering that fully integrates with Sophos Intercept X to provide advanced endpoint protection and zero trust network access with a single agent.

"This rapid iteration of fixes has left software developers and organisations worldwide scrambling to assess and mitigate their exposure with nearly daily-changing guidance."

“The techniques used by AvosLocker are simple, but very clever. They ensure that the ransomware has the best chance of running in Safe Mode and allow the attackers to retain remote access to the machines throughout the attack."

Sophos has released details of a novel exploit that bypasses a patch for a critical vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Office file format. 

Sophos has provided new threat intelligence following the reporting of the Apache Log4Shell vulnerability.

Cybercriminals are continuously scanning the internet for vulnerable online entry points, and they don't wait in line when they find one. 

Sophos has released new findings on the Tor2Mine cryptominer that show how the miner evades detection, spreads automatically through a target network, and is increasingly harder to remove from an infected system.

"Sorting through and making sense of potentially thousands of user activity events to identify suspicious activity used to be near impossible."

"The attackers use social engineering to lure victims into granting the permissions needed to see into every corner of their digital life."

Sophos researchers have uncovered a new attack operation by the malware family known as BazarBackdoor, which abuses the Windows 10 App Installer to spread malware.

The gravitational force of ransomware's black hole is pulling in other cyberthreats to form one massive, interconnected ransomware delivery system with significant implications for IT security.