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Attacks leveraging exploits for Microsoft Office grew fourfold in early 2018

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Exploits – software that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability – for Microsoft Office in-the-wild hit the list of cyber headaches in Q1 2018. Overall, the number of users attacked with malicious Office documents rose more than four times compared with Q1 2017. In just three months, its share of exploits used in attacks grew to almost 50 per cent - double the average share of exploits for Microsoft Office across 2017. These are the main findings from Kaspersky Lab’s Q1 IT...

Published in Datacentre + Network Security Security + Compliance

Optiv Security has published its 2018 Cyber Threat Intelligence Estimate (CTIE) which details the current state of the cyber-threat landscape and uses estimative intelligence to predict how that landscape stands to change in the future. This report is generated to provide Optiv’s clients with a global view of security threats and trends, so they can effectively adapt their strategic plans to mitigate anticipated enterprise risk.

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Device Security Identity/Access Management Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

80 million fraud attacks and 210m bot attacks originated from Europe in Q1 2018.

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By Kristofer Mansson, CEO, Silobreaker.

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Device Security Identity/Access Management Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

Fortinet has published the findings of its latest Global Threat Landscape Report. The research reveals cybercriminals are evolving their attack methods to increase their success rates and speed infections.

Published in Cloud + MS Datacentre + Network Security Security Security + Compliance

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