Cybercrime is a growing problem for higher education. Between 2020 and 2021, cyberattacks targeting the education sector increased by 75%. In line with other industries, the education sector is also experiencing a dramatic increase in ransomware attacks. According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 30% of data breaches in the industry were attributed to ransomware attacks.

For years, the BFSI industry has been a top target for cyberattackers. Yet, despite long-standing awareness of financial cyber risks, the problem is only getting worse as banks, insurance companies, FinTech businesses and other organizations that operate in the finance sector face a growing array of threats and risks. For example, threat actors are increasingly using financial organizations’ customers as a vector for attack.

Update: Meta appears to be coming online again. Breaking news: 3 threat actor groups (Skynet, Godzilla, and Anonymous Sudan) have claimed to attack and shut down Facebook, Threads and Instagram. Users are being automatically logged out of Meta and being shown session expired messages. Then they are unable to log back in. Instagram is showing feed errors.

Companies grow through mergers and acquisitions. Marketing teams promote new products. New products spawn new web domains. As brand names, URLs, and cloud IT infrastructure proliferate, so do enterprises’ vulnerability to online attacks. At the same time, security professionals working with limited resources find it increasingly challenging to maintain oversight of their online assets.

Social engineering is a technique commonly used by adversaries to manipulate individuals or groups of people into divulging confidential information, performing certain actions, or giving up access to valuable resources. These attacks can take many forms and are typically carried out through electronic communication channels or in-person interactions.

Some of the most common types of password attacks include password cracking, password spraying, dictionary attacks, credential stuffing, brute force and rainbow table attacks. The better your password habits are, the less susceptible you are to password attacks. Keeper’s Password Management Report found that only 25% of respondents use strong, unique passwords for every account – meaning that 75% of respondents place their accounts at risk of being compromised due to weak passwords.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll look at three types of cyberattacks that are predicted to be prevalent in 2024. If there’s one thing we can be certain of, it’s that we will never ever be safe from cyberthreats. That is why we need to prepare ourselves for the onslaught of cybercrime that is about to hit us this new year.

The “fog of war” is a military term used to denote the uncertainty and confusion experienced on the battlefield. During periods of growing geopolitical conflict, it becomes increasingly hard to keep pace with new developments.

As part of our effort to make the world safer, SecurityScorecard has been tracking threat actor groups conducting cyberattacks on behalf of nation states.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, social engineering remains a potent and insidious method employed by cybercriminals. Unlike traditional hacking techniques that exploit software vulnerabilities, social engineering manipulates human psychology to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information.