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News alert: Beazley reports on how AI, new tech distract businesses as cyber risk intensifies

The Last Watchdog

trillion by 2025, a 300% increase since 2015 1. Bantick “As the MOVEit hack has proved, the bad actors are always looking for new ways to attack with tactics ranging from third party supplier attacks to more sophisticated social engineering and phishing attack techniques. Yet, boardroom focus on cyber risk appears to be diminishing.

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

All signs pointed to a senior employee being tricked by a spear phishing or whaling scam. In yet another case of cyber criminals pouncing on the uncertainty caused by a developing news story, a phishing campaign emerged in October that took advantage of Twitter’s plans to overhaul its verification process. trillion (about £8.9

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