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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. Finance and insurance companies were particularly vulnerable to the sort of phishing scams we’re talking about. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S.,

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. Despite the continuing surge in ransomware attacks, many vendors provide effective solutions to detect, slow, and even block ransomware or data theft attempts before they become crippling events. 27% of all attacks mine crypto currencies, usually on unmonitored cloud systems.

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Ephesoft Launches Context Driven Productivity at Enterprise Productivity Summit

Info Source

11, 2020 – Ephesoft, Inc., 6 during Ephesoft’s inaugural Enterprise Productivity Summit , which convened enterprise strategists and technology leaders to discuss how to leverage contextual data to maximize Artificial Intelligence-driven decision-making and automation beginning in 2020. IRVINE, Calif.,

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Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its Ongoing Independence

Troy Hunt

These were companies spanning all sorts of different industries; big tech, general infosec, antivirus, hosting, finance, e-commerce, cyber insurance - I could go on. pic.twitter.com/243oK9N5Yp — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) February 27, 2020. The point is the net was cast very wide. Collectively, we agreed to put pens down.

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