Network attacks, malware campaigns and phishing scams are on the rise as cybercriminals seek to capitalize on our increased anxiety about the coronavirus pandemic and the lax security measures of at-home workers. According to the FBI, threat reports through the first six months of the year have already surpassed the total for all of 2019, which was widely considered to be the worst year ever for cyberattacks.

Wi-Fi has become an essential business tool, capable of enabling greater flexibility, operational efficiency and customer service. But because Wi-Fi transports data over radio frequencies, it is vulnerable to six threats that don’t impact the wired network.

Businesses are aggressively adopting cloud-based productivity suites to improve agility, efficiency and collaboration in a work-from-anywhere world. Two of the more popular platforms, Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google’s G Suite, have hundreds of millions of users.

Much like the coronavirus itself, virus-themed ransomware attacks are spreading relentlessly. However, there are several relatively simple steps you can take to flatten the curve of these malicious campaigns.

Cybercriminals commonly launch attacks designed to play on widespread fear and uncertainty during major world crises.

Predictably, cybercriminals seeking to capitalize on the COVID-19 pandemic with waves of cyberattacks. Many are specifically targeting the huge numbers of people worldwide who are working from home to reduce the spread of the virus.

Remote workers are inviting targets because they lack many of the digital protections that exist in a secure office environment.

Industrial control systems (ICS) such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are essential technologies in many industries, allowing organizations to collect, aggregate and analyze data, automate processes and monitor infrastructure over distance.

Organizations in virtually all industries are embracing technologies that allow them to analyze massive data sets in order to gain market insights, optimize operations and boost profits. However, such big data initiatives raise concerns about data privacy.

Remember about year or so ago when experts believed awareness of ransomware had increased, defenses were improving, and the number of successful ransomware attacks were likely to drop? Wishful thinking.

In a previous post, we discussed why ransomware attacks, after a brief decline, should be among your top five security priorities in 2020. The FBI shares our concerns, warning organizations that ransomware attacks were becoming more targeted, sophisticated and costly.

Data breaches hit an all-time high in 2019, with an estimated 8.5 billion records exposed in more than 5,000 reported breaches. It may not get any better in 2020 as organizations encounter increasingly sophisticated threats while dealing with chronically short-staffed IT security teams.

In a recent post, we described many of the techniques that malware authors are using to disguise their attacks. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at how WatchGuard Technologies uses data analytics to identify and expose these stealthy exploits.

As described in the earlier post, cybercriminals today employ code obfuscation, polymorphism and other techniques to create malware that can constantly change its identifiable features.