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Cato Networks, the SASE leader, today announced that Cato CTRL, the SASE leader’s cyber threat intelligence (CTI) research team, will demonstrate threat actors’ latest tactics designed to capitalise on organisations’ complex security architectures during presentations at the upcoming RSA Conference 2024. The talks headline Cato’s numerous media, customer, and partner activities at the conference. “Today’s security landscape is plagued by a patchwork of point solutions that often fail to challenge the threats posed by attackers...

Netacea, the bot detection and response specialist, today announced new research into the threat of AI-driven cyberattacks. It finds that most businesses see “offensive AI” fast becoming a standard tool for cybercriminals, with 93% of security leaders expecting to face daily AI-driven attacks. The research, Cyber security in the age of offensive AI, surveyed security leaders in the UK and US about their experience with AI as a tool in cybersecurity, enhancing both offensive and...

Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, today released the findings of its M-Trends 2024 report. Now in its 15th year, this annual report provides expert trend analysis based on Mandiant frontline cyber attack investigations and remediations conducted in 2023. The 2024 report reveals evidence that organizations globally have made meaningful improvements in their defensive capabilities, identifying malicious activity affecting their organization more quickly than in previous years. The report also takes a look at notable threat...

Kroll, the leading independent provider of global risk and financial advisory solutions, has released the State of Cyber Defense: Diagnosing Cyber Threats in Healthcare report, exposing the healthcare industry’s disillusionment in terms of its cyber maturity. The research reveals that over a quarter (26%) of healthcare businesses have immature cybersecurity processes yet nearly 50% believe their processes are ‘very mature’. Despite this high sense of self-confidence, only 3% of healthcare organizations surveyed actually have mature...

Pentest People, the Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS®) and cybersecurity experts, today announces it is the first Leeds-based cybersecurity company to become a qualified and approved Cyber Advisor (Cyber Essentials) on the NCSC’s Cyber Advisor scheme. Developed in partnership with IASME, the scheme simplifies the process for organisations embarking on their cybersecurity journey, ensuring they can readily access the expertise and guidance provided by certified professionals. Introduced at CyberUK in Belfast last year, the...

New research by Hornetsecurity highlights the AI cybersecurity gap affecting UK businesses. Although nearly half (45%) of companies have fallen victim to cyberattacks, 26% are still not using AI to enhance their cybersecurity defences. The survey, which gathered responses from over 500 C-suite professionals across the UK, reveals that cyber threats are an escalating concern. 85% of respondents acknowledge the increased sophistication of these attacks, largely attributed to AI facilitating the process of threat creation....

Companies can level up their cybersecurity defenses - eliminating the skills and knowledge gaps that criminals regularly exploit thanks to Hack The Box’s Cyber Performance Center. Hack The Box’s Cyber Performance Center unites individual ability, business management practices, and the human factor in the cybersecurity industry and it is designed to help organizations take a coordinated approach to their cyber readiness, reducing the vulnerabilities created when cybersecurity is siloed or treated as a tick-box requirement....

Synopsys has introduced Black Duck® Supply Chain Edition, a novel software composition analysis (SCA) solution. This offering aids organisations in mitigating upstream risks within their software supply chains. Black Duck® Supply Chain Edition amalgamates various open source detection technologies, automated third-party software bill of materials (SBOM) analysis, and malware detection to offer a comprehensive perspective on software risks originating from open source, third-party, and AI-generated code sources. Development and security teams can now trace dependencies...

Researchers at Comparitech, the pro-consumer website providing information, tools, reviews and comparisons to help readers improve their cyber security and privacy online, have discovered that ransomware gang Qilin claimed credit on its website for stealing 550 GB of data from the Big Issue, a UK-based street newspaper. The company has said in a statement that it is working with NCSC, NCA and Metropolitan Police to complete its investigation. In a blog post, security and privacy...

WatchGuard® Technologies, a unified cybersecurity company, has announced the findings of its latest Internet Security Report, detailing the top malware trends and network and endpoint security threats analysed by WatchGuard Threat Lab researchers. Key findings from the data show a dramatic surge in evasive malware that fueled a large increase of total malware, threat actors targeting on-premises email servers as prime targets to exploit, and ransomware detections continuing to decline, potentially as a result of...