With the rise in cyberattacks and ransomware incidents, healthcare organizations face an increasing risk of data breaches that threaten patient privacy and HIPAA compliance. The recent $500,000 settlement between the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and Plastic Surgery Associates of South Dakota highlights the critical importance of robust cybersecurity defenses in healthcare.

People have always been susceptible to a deal that is too good to be true. In the 1800s, American con man George C. Parker was best known for his repeated successes in "selling the Brooklyn Bridge” to the unwary. Then, in the 1900s it became popular to sell "valuable" Florida real estate that turned out to be swampland.

The booming e-commerce industry, with its projected $5 trillion in sales by 2025, has become a prime target for cybercriminals, a fact highlighted in the new Trustwave SpiderLabs report, Retail Sector Deep Dive: Rise of E-Commerce Threats.

The holiday shopping season is almost here, and according to the 2024 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Retail Sector, threat actors have honed their skills and are prepared to use ransomware and phishing attacks that leverage well-known online brands to conduct direct attacks and fraud operations against retailers and consumers. Skills they will then use to infiltrate retail organizations of all types throughout the rest of the year.

As the holiday shopping season approaches, the 2024 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Retail Sector reveals that cybercriminals have sharpened their tactics, utilizing ransomware and phishing attacks that exploit well-known online brands to target retailers and consumers directly. These skills will likely be employed to infiltrate various retail organizations throughout the year.

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024 draws to a close, let’s take a few minutes and cover one more topic. The need to be cybersecurity aware 24/7/365. Attacks happen all day every day so having cybersecurity as a top-of-mind subject for just a month out of the year means that for the other 11 months, attackers have the advantage. Here are just a few reasons organizations and their employees need to remain hyper vigilant.

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems are crucial to collecting and analyzing incoming cyber threats, but many companies need help to tune and monitor them properly. These firms enlist a security service provider to do it for them. That often leads to the question of whether a managed detection and response (MDR) service is also necessary. In short, yes, adding MDR is a strong move as it adds deep threat investigation, threat hunting, and response actions at the endpoint.

For eight consecutive years, MSSP Alert has named Trustwave as one of the Top 10 Managed Security Services Providers worldwide. Trustwave placed 10th on MSSP's 2024 Top 250 MSSP list, indicating the company's status as a leading provider of managed security services.

Trustwave SpiderLabs on October 29 will launch its second deeply researched look into the threats facing the retail sector. The 2024 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Retail Sector will cover in detail the threats facing the industry, the most prominent adversaries in the field, and the commonly used methods to attack retailers. The main report is supported by two supplementary pieces.

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and you know what that means. We spend every spare hour waiting for The Great Pumpkin. As many of us know, (and we’re going to stretch this analogy to the limit) Linus actively created an environment that would attract The Great Pumpkin by establishing the sincerest pumpkin patch in the neighborhood. Furthermore, he went on the offensive to attract others to his belief that The Great Pumpkin would appear on Halloween night.