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As Europe is returning from summer breaks, it is time to reflect on the first half of 2024 and look forward to the rest of the year. Ransomware attacks on hospitals, blue screens across the world crippling airline operations and other industries, deepfakes to sway opinion and possibly elections, deepfake social engineering tactics to extort significant amounts of money - so far the year has kept cybersecurity professionals busy.

Threat actors are abusing a technique called “URL rewriting” to hide their phishing links from security filters, according to researchers at Perception Point. Security tools from major vendors use URL rewriting to prevent phishing attacks, but the same technique can be abused to trick these tools into thinking a malicious link is legitimate.

According to Gartner, “By 2026, organizations prioritizing their security investments based on a continuous exposure management program will be three times less likely to suffer from a breach.” But what exactly is CTEM?

On April 9, 2024, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced its intention to implement a cybersecurity rating system for companies by fiscal year 2025.

This is the first blog in a series about Branch Transformation with the Next Gen SASE Branch solution. Built on the Netskope One SASE platform, this innovative approach combines Context-aware SASE Fabric, Zero Trust Hybrid Security, and a SkopeAI-powered Cloud Orchestrator into a unified cloud offering. This blog delves into Context-aware SASE Fabric, the foundational tenet of the Next Gen SASE Branch solution that facilitates the convergence and sharing of context between networking and security.

New tools appear in ongoing social engineering campaign, Mad Liberator ransomware targets AnyDesk users, and Bitdefender explores the evolving cybercriminal underground.

The demand for robust security, transparency, and accountability is at an all-time high, and many businesses are relying on managed service providers (MSPs) to manage their IT infrastructure, ensure data security, or provide seamless operational support. Concurrently, MSPs must continuously innovate and differentiate their offerings to meet the growing needs of businesses.

The cyber threat landscape continues to be an unpredictable challenge for organizations as more of them embrace digitization. When it comes to maintaining stability and security in the age of rampant cyber attacks and record levels of data breaches plaguing businesses sector-wide, the importance of cyber hygiene cannot be overstated.

You may trust the people you work and partner with, but you never know how they really behave and handle your sensitive data within your organization’s network. Each user in your IT infrastructure brings their own security risks. Tracking user activity helps mitigate those risks and enhance your organization’s security. This article will show you how to set up an efficient user activity monitoring (UAM) process with Ekran System.

The education sector proved to be a key target for threat actors in Q2 2024, particularly for ransomware groups. FOG ransomware was a significant threat to the sector this quarter, with clear seasonal cycles in incidents impacting educational institutions, possibly due to perceived reduction in IT staffing around the summer months or the belief that schools may be more likely to pay a ransom during peak periods.