The 2024 State of the Media: Tech Edition is a subsection of that report, zeroing in on the behaviors and perspectives of journalists and media influencers who cover the technology and engineering industry, a pool of over 500 respondents. We examined their specific challenges and implications for the PR professionals seeking to work with them, as well as the potential opportunities. Our respondents provided candid insights into what they want and need from public relations professionals whose organizations and clients strive to build brand awareness, consumer trust, and thought leadership in the technology and engineering sector.

Based on that data and Sophos threat research, we see that ransomware continues to have the greatest impact on smaller organizations. But other threats also pose an existential threat to small businesses. Data theft is the focus of most malware targeting small and medium businesses—password stealers, keyboard loggers, and other spyware made up nearly half of malware detections. Email attacks have begun to move away from simple social engineering toward more active engagement with targets over email, using a thread of emails and responses to make their lures more convincing.

The 10th annual Imperva Bad Bot Report is a threat research report that analyzes and investigates the automated attacks occurring daily, sneaking past traditional detection methods and wreaking havoc on the internet. It is based on data collected from the company’s global network throughout 2022, which includes 6 trillion blocked bad bot requests, anonymized across thousands of domains. . In addition, this report offers meaningful information and guidance about the nature and impact of bots to help organizations better understand the potential risks of bot traffic when not properly managed.

The world of cybercrime never stands still. In the new Cyber Threat Report – Edition 2021/22 – the IT experts from Hornet security once again take a close look at the gateway of email communication and analyze the latest cybercriminal scams. In doing so, they examine what threats have emerged in 2021, what has become of Emotet, and what companies need to be prepared for when opening their inboxes in the future.

In this edition, we again focus on concentration of malicious activity by the same six categories we studied in the last edition in the Fall of 2021. We expect that some criteria will remain relevant over the foreseeable future; that is, as datapoints related to domain names, there are unlikely to become less forensically-valuable unless that internets fundamental structure changes. Other datapoints may wax and wane in relevance.

In March 2023, Darktrace commissioned a global survey with Censuswide, to 6,711 employees across the UK, US, France, Germany, Australia, and the Netherlands to gather third-party insights into human behavior around email, to better understand how employees globally react to potential security threats, their understanding of email security and the modern technologies that are being used to transform the threats against them.

This report represents Deep Instinct’s current view of the threat landscape. The report discusses trends seen during 2020 and provides concrete data to verify the credibility of these developments. The information was sourced from our data repositories which are routinely analyzed as part of protecting our customers from ceaseless attacks.

This study documents and quantifies how Mimecast protects organizations against threats. Cybercrime affects every organization no matter the size or type, and it’s a threat that is growing and changing constantly.

This report is based on data collected from the Imperva global network throughout 2021. The data is composed of hundreds of billions of blocked data bot requests, anonymized over thousands of domains. The goal os this report is to provide meaningful information and guidance about the nature and impact of these automates threats.

The 2022 Cyber Security Report uncovers the key cybersecurity trends from 2021, including a supply chain attack ‘frenzy’ and increased disruption to everyday life. Education and Research were revealed as the most targeted sector. The report gives a detailed overview of the cyber threat landscape and recommendations on how to prevent the next cyber pandemic.

This report is to share notable trends and investigations to help inform our community’s understanding of the evolving security threats we see. During some quarters, our reporting may focus more on a particular adversarial trend or tactics we see emerge across different threat actors. During other quarters, we may dive into an especially complex investigation or walk through a novel policy application and relate threat disruptions.

This report is Meta’s quarterly adversarial threat report that provides a broad view into the risks we see worldwide and across multiple policy violations.

A review of domain registration, hosting, and content-related data on attack patterns and trends.

This study captures and analyzes a large set of information about phishing attacks, in order to better understand how much phishing is taking place, where it is taking place, and to see if the data suggests better ways to fight phishing.

The second Abnormal Security Quarterly BEC Report examines the business email compromise (BEC) threat landscape during what may be the most tumultuous quarter in modern business history: the first full quarter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A survey driven review of 25 indicators via 50 questions spanning nearly 160 respondents. This attempts to focus on factors influencing cybersecurity strategy design and implementation on a year-over-year basis.

A review of 63 events where Kivu participated in payouts of ransomware events on behalf of clients engaged via a post-incident response. Provides firmographic breakdown of ransomware payouts.

The annual report on trends in malware and hacked website from the incident response and malware research teams at GoDaddy Security /Sucuri.

The 2020 Trustwave Global Security Report is an annual review of the phenomena, trends and statistics affecting computer security and worldwide safety, as observed by Trustwave systems and security analysts throughout 2019. As we enter a new deacade, we take a fresh look at the changing face of the compromise, from the ways in which increasingly sophisticated threat actors adapted in recent years to improvements in threat detection and response and how people in white hats responded.

Our 2019 Threat Research Report is a deep dive into our logs, experiences, and collected analysis. It summarizes and identifies the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures seen by the Malware Research team, Vulnerability Research team, Threat Intel Research team and Remediation Groups at Sucuri/GoDaddy.

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.