Reports

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2017
Cyber Risk and Cyber Insurance – Insurance challenge to the CIO as corporate Cyber Security Effectiveness manager

[By Cesare Burei, Margas on courtesy of @CLUSIT – Rapporto Clusit 2017 – All right reserved] Until the corporate Risk Managers dealing with Cyber Risk, and there are not many of these, start working at all levels, who shall be entrusted with the management of Cyber Risks and, more specifically, with the transfer of risk […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2017
Industrial Sector ICSs under attack – Kaspersky Lab’s ICS-CERT

The report shows a disconcerting reality, the number of targeted attacks on the ICSs deployed in the Industrial sector continues to increase. The Kaspersky Lab’s ICS-CERT has published a report on the threat landscape for industrial automation systems (ICSs) related to second half of 2016. The report shows a disconcerting reality, the number of targeted attacks on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2017
How much costs a DDoS attack service? Which factors influence the final price?

How much costs a DDoS attack service? Kaspersky Lab published an analysis on the cost of a DDoS attack and services available in the black markets. The DDoS attacks continue to be a profitable business in the cyber criminal underground. Powering a DDoS attack against an organization is even cheaper, running an attack can cost […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2017
Global DDoS Threat Landscape Q4 2016 – US, UK and Netherlands top attacked countries

Imperva published the Global DDoS Threat Landscape Q4 2016, according to the experts the US, the UK and Netherlands are top attacked countries. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to represent a serious threat to organizations worldwide. The attacks are growing in size and level of sophistication according to the new report ‘Global DDoS Threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2017
The total potential loss for financial services globally is estimated at ÂŁ8 billion

Researchers at ThreatMetrix observed that online financial services and lending companies were the most targeted by crooks in 2016. Online financial services, lending companies, and alternative payment systems are privileged targets of threat actors. According to the researchers at the security firm ThreatMetrix, the number of cyber attacks against online lending companies and alternative payment systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2017
Phishing Trends Report – 2016 ended as the worst year for phishing in history

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) published the Phishing Trends Report for Q4 2016. APWG reported 1.2 million phishing attacks in 2016. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) published the Phishing Trends Report for Q4 2016. The data are worrisome, 2016 ended as the worst year for phishing in history. The experts reported the total number of phishing attacks in 2016 […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2017
US Oil and Gas Industry unprepared to mitigate risks in operational technology (OT) environments

A study commissioned by Siemens revealed that US oil and gas industry is unprepared to mitigate cybersecurity risks in operational technology environments. A new study commissioned by the engineering firm Siemens revealed that oil and gas industry in the United States is largely unprepared to mitigate cybersecurity risks in operational technology (OT) environments. The survey was conducted […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2017
Corporate email addresses are 6.2x more targeted by phishing

At the RSA security conference in San Francisco, the experts at Google Research explained that Corporate email addresses are privileged targets for hackers. At the RSA security conference in San Francisco, the experts at the Google Research team at the Google Research team have shared the results of an interesting study on cyber attacks against emails accounts. Corporate […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2017
Kelihos becomes January’s Top 10 ‘Most Wanted’ Malware

The infamous Kelihos botnet climbed to the top position, while the Conficker worm dropped to fourth on the chart of malware. Which are the most active malware in the wild? According to a research conducted by CheckPoint Security, a malware landscape was characterized by some interesting changed in this first part of 2017. The Kelihos botnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2017
ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2016, who is attacking us, and how?

ENISA has issued the annual ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2016, a document that synthesizes the emerging trends in cyber security The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is an EU Agency composed of security experts that work with these states, public organizations and private groups to develop advice and recommendations on good practice […]