Tag: Small and Medium Business

Ransomware hiding in fake AI, business tools

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and small business tools are being abused as smokescreens to hit unsuspecting victims with ransomware. In the masquerade campaigns discovered by Cisco Talos, cybercriminals hid malware behind software and install packages that mimicked the websites or names Read More …

Cyber extortion sees huge rise – and small businesses are four times more likely to be hit

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Cyber extortion remains the most prominent threat facing businesses of all sizes across all industries, a new report from Orange Cyberdefense has found. The 2024 Cy-Explorer report worryingly uncovered that the number of victims of cyber extortion scams has grown Read More …

Survey finds more than 50% of German companies victim of cyberattacks

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A multi-country survey by the British insurer Hiscox shows that security authorities around the world are struggling in the fight against cybercrime. According to the Hiscox comparison with selected countries, German businesses are relatively frequent targets of hackers. The latest edition Read More …

London issues call to arms to cyber security community

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Cyber security community called on to help educate capital’s small businesses about cyber crime and give them practical advice London is calling on the cyber security community to help keep the city’s more than one million small businesses safe from Read More …

Melbourne accelerator program seeks APAC cybersecurity startups

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A new cybersecurity accelerator program is set to launch in Melbourne this month, thanks to an incubator partnership between Deakin University and Dimension Data. The program, CyRise, is now looking for early-stage cybersecurity entrepreneurs and professionals from across Australia, New Read More …