The number of companies purchasing cyber insurance continued to increase in 2019, driven by growing recognition of cyber threats as a critical business risk and appreciation for cyber insurance’s role in mitigating its economic impact.

This report outlines happenings in malware attacks for the last 3 months of 2019. In general, it says malware attacks died down this quarter.

Our sixth annual State of the Phish report again brings you critical, actionable insights into the current state of the phishing threat. You’ll learn about: • The end-user awareness and knowledge gaps that could be hurting your cybersecurity defenses The impacts information security professionals are experiencing because of phishing attacks and the ways they’re trying to combat these threats • How Proofpoint customers are approaching phishing awareness training, and the ways we’re helping them measure program success

The insights presented in this report will help guide your supply chainmonitoring and risk mitigation strategy, enable better informed decision-making processes, and aid the formulationof responses that create more resilient and sustainablebusiness operations.

If there’s one thing this year’s Global Threat Report really brings home, it’s that there’s never been a better time to get involved in cybersecurity. The stakes are high, and rising every day. Those that read and share this report are helping to educate themselves and others to better protect themselves and their communities, both at work and at home.

This is the threat landscape report from Fortinet for the 4th quarter of 2019. It goes into changes in this quarter, including threat detection changes and attack changes.

FireEye has been detecting and responding to cyber attacks every day for over 15 years. The release of M-Trends® 2020 marks 11 years of providing the cyber security community with insights gained from the frontlines of those attacks.

This report anticipates activity targeting and affecting ICS to increase into 2020 and further. It expects to see more adversaries expand their focus to additional criticalinfrastructure and industrial environments, which willlikely align with activity associated with military orgeopolitical conflict. Although defenders continue to gaininsight through OT-specific detection and monitoringplatforms, it is imperative people continue to improvevisibility into activities and threats impacting criticalinfrastructure.

In this, our launch issue of CyberTheory, we will explore the current and future state of cybersecurity, the key issues driving the shift in the corporate board room perception of cyber-risk and add substantive analysis to what we believe are the most engaging topics in the space.

We annually gather and analyze raw data from hundreds of IT and industrial control systems (ICS) security practitioners across a variety of industries, people whose work places them in positions of responsibility to identify risks and safeguard control systems and networks from malicious and accidental actions. It is our mission to turn these inputs into actionable intelligence that can be used to support new developments and address ongoing trends in the field, to inform the crucial business decisions that determine allocation of resources, prioritization of protective measures on critical assets and systems, and planning of new initiatives.

This guide was constructed with insight from a global panel of Malwarebytes experts and external experts from a variety of disciplines. It also features a brief review of cybercrime history, the emergence of new participants and the impact on businesses and individuals.

Accenture details trends in cyber threats in 2019. It narrows it down to five key features of the 2019 Trendscape: 1. New threats are occuring from technology evolution and disinformation. 2:Cybercriminals adapt, hustle, diversify, and are looking more like states. 3: hybrid motives pose new dangers of ransomware defense and response 4:Improved ecosystem hygiene is pushing threats to the supply chain

Imperva outlines trends in the DDoS threat landscape in 2017, including that the number of attacks has doubled, that crypto-currency continues to be targeted, and that persistent attacks are growing more common.

This year’s Internet Crime Report highlights the IC3’s efforts to monitor trending scams such as Business Email Compromise (BEC), Ransomware, Elder Fraud, and Tech Support Fraud. As the report indicates, in 2019, IC3 received a total of 467,361 complaints with reported losses exceeding $3.5 billion. The most prevalent crime types reported were Phishing/Vishing/Smishing/Pharming, Non-Payment/Non-Delivery, Extortion, and Personal Data Breach. The top three crime types with the highest reported losses were BEC, Confidence/Romance Fraud, and Spoofing. More details on each of these scams can be found in this report.

X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) compiled IBM Security software and security services analyses from the past year, which show that 2019 was a year of reemerging old threats being used in new ways.

A long form narrative on several threat trends seen in recent months.

A survey-based report with findings in four major areas: current security posture, perceptions and concerns, current and future investments, and practices and strategies.

In this special CTNT report on healthcare, wefocus on the top threat categories and familiesthat plagued the medical industry over the lastyear, as well as the most common attack methodsused by cybercriminals to penetrate healthcaredefenses. In addition, we highlight the securitychallenges inherent to organizations, from smallprivate practices to enterprise health maintenanceorganizations (HMOs), as well as the reasons whyhackers look to infiltrate their defenses. Finally,we look ahead to future biotech innovations andthe need to consider security in their design andimplementation.

Agari recently surveyed 305 senior European IT security professionals to better understand the region’s email threat landscape from the perspective of those fighting on the front lines against business email compromise (BEC), spear phishing, and other targeted email attacks. What emerges is a snapshot of a continent plagued by frictionless email scams that evade technical security controls and successfully hack the human psyche.

The Herjavec Group goes over changes to Cybersecurity in 2019, looking at the cyber attack surface, cybersecurity spending, and ransomware rising.

This global survey was carried out during the third quarter of 2019. 271 brokers and 96 underwriters – all involved in cyber insurance - shared with us their observations and views of the cyber insurance marketplace