From the report, “With endpoint security products continuing to be at the tip of the spear of cyber defenses for years to come, the question is how to ensure the best possible security posture. No matter which way an endpoint security buyer turns, there is no one magic bullet. It is likely that a layered approach with multiple different technologies working together is required.” Read on to find out why.

From the report, “In this SPIE, we shine a spotlight on the phishing prevention approaches of one start-up company, Area 1 Security; and one long-tenured cybersecurity vendor, IBM. Although complete elimination cannot be promised, each is taking steps that reduce the potential of their business clients (Area 1’s Horizon) and their clients’ clients (IBM Trusteer Rapport) from becoming victims. Secondarily, by removing the burden of phishing defense from employees and consumers, employees’ productivity is positively affected, and consumers’ trust in online activities is strengthened.”

By the end of this report, you’ll have a better understanding of today’s approaches to evading detection tools and the trajectory of evasion into the next year. This way, you’ll have a better sense regarding your endpoint security architecture and your plans for maintaining or improving its effectiveness.

The DataVisor Fraud Index Report Q2 2018 is based on attacks that were detected by the DataVisor UML Engine from April through June 2018 with additional recent attack trend data. This report provides unprecedented insights into the evolving attack trends and characteristics of fraud attacks across a number of industries including social platform, e-commerce, financial services, and mobile gaming.

The DataVisor Fraud Index Report: Q1 2018 is based on attacks that were detected by the DataVisor UML Engine from January through March of 2018, analyzing 40 billion events and 680 million user accounts. This report provides unprecedented insights into the attack techniques that bad actors use to engage in malicious activities and evade detection.

The Q3 2018 Fraud Index Report, produced by the DataVisor Research Team, analyzes recent fraud attacks impacting consumers and organizations for the period July - September 2018.

This report offers some insight into Health Information Technology and the cybersecurity issues that plague that area.

From the report, “During the last few months, global corporations have been extremely busy with implementing the needed changes in order to be compliant with the upcoming GDPR regulation. While this happens, cyber-threat actors are preparing themselves for the possible consequences, without a clear picture of whether GDPR will hurt them or benefit them. According to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) any company that handles European Union consumer personal data is obligated to take tangible steps to ensure the information’s security. This means the EU sees any organization that uses EU citizens’ data of any kind, responsible to protect it, whether the organization is headquartered inside EU territory or not. It will, of course, affect the way global corporations handle consumer data encryption, but in even more basic terms, it will affect what kind of information is permitted to be stored and passed along to other users.”

This report takes a look at the healthcare industry and seeks to provide insight into the cyber security issues that remain in that industry.

The key findings of this report are; 1) Active Cyber defence has significant potential in helping improve UK national cybersecurity 2) Active Cyber defence can play a powerful role in shaping the cybersecurity marketplace and furthering the interests of UK internet users and consumers 3) Active Cyber defense is a potentially useful model for export to like-minded countries 4) Active Cyber defense may constitute an emergent public good 5)Active cyber defense is not perfect, nor should we expect it to be.

This report offers insight into both Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. It discusses IoT botnets and DDoS, Rising Ransomware, File-less Attacks, and on the security side, it discusses Talent 7 Budget Shortage, Government opinions, Pervasive Threat Intelligence and Market Consolidation.

From the report, “On November 26th, Slovakian Anonymous leader ‘Abaddon’ posted in the deep web message board ‘Hidden Answers’, looking to recruit accomplices for an operation targeting NATO and EU websites. The proposed attacks would potentially arrive by means of XSS (cross-site scripting), SQL injection, or a combination of both. And by DDoS (distributed denial of service), a type of attack that is intended to make an online resource unavailable to its legitimate users by overwhelming it with traffic. It is not yet clear what the motives for the operation are, or what the official name will be.”

This report seeks to review the dramatic changes that took place in the banking industry in 2018, and lay out a strategy for those institutions in 2019.

This report offers insight into forged documents online. And how they are traded and used to commit identity fraud or evade authorities.

This Impact Report provides insights into consumers’ views on authentication. Consumers often don’t understand the mechanics of technologies very well, or even why they’re being used, but they have definite preferences about how and when they want to engage in authentication activities.

Recently, cybercriminals have managed to redirect web-based crypto-wallet DNS queries to a malicious mirror website. By doing so, they were able to steal $17m in Ethereum. The hackers pulled off a BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking attack on the website’s DNS service host, causing it to receive a false IP address and direct users to a phishing website. As a result, the users became victims of the attack, losing their stored wallet’s crypto-currency.

From the report, “Widespread data breaches, the EMV migration, and efforts to extend the longevity of the SSN, have created an ideal environment in which synthetic identity fraud is flourishing. Furthermore, consumers’ physical and digital footprints are becoming more complicated, meandering across locations, devices, and geographies. This makes it more difficult than ever to differentiate legitimate user behavior from fraudsters. Businesses need to prevent synthetic identities from entering their ecosystems by understanding anomalies to individual user behavior and helping to correlate the seemingly disconnected events and security incidents in real time. Combining historical and real-time data and leveraging machine learning to analyze individual behavior across channels can reveal complex patterns to help detect and block synthetic identities without causing friction for real customers.”

This report offers insight into controlling friction while tackling Cybercrime in Financial Services.

This infographic provides a brief overview of data presented in the ThreatMetrix Q2 2018 Cybercrime Report.

The ThreatMetrix Payment Processor Cybercrime Report is based on actual cybercrime attacks last year that were detected by the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network (the Network) during real-time analysis and interdiction of fraudulent online payments, logins and new account applications.

The ThreatMetrix Gaming and Gambling Cybercrime Report is based on actual cybercrime attacks in Q2 2018 that were detected by the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network (the Network) during real-time analysis and interdiction of fraudulent online payments, logins and new account applications.