According to a new report from analyst firm Frost and Sullivan, the Middle East’s cybersecurity market is expected to reach $31 billion by the year 2030, up from $7.5 billion in 2022. This exponential growth is a clear reflection of the state of the market and the level of priority that enterprises are giving to […]
In the last eight days, US fighter jets have eliminated 4 Chinese spy balloons. The fourth one was shot along the border of Alaska and Canada last Saturday. The US Defense Department has attributed the increase in the detection – and shoot-downs – of suspicious flying objects to increased scrutiny of U.S. airspace and the
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Chinese hacker group APT 41 has been in the news for multiple instances of cyberattacks, espionage, cyber piracy, and cybercrimes for at least a decade now. In 2022, however, APT 41’s activities have expanded significantly to net more data and geo-political leverage for its backers. This trend does have implications for governments and institutions of
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Imagine a scenario where hackers take control of ground-based command and control systems and connected networks to either shut down a critical system or manipulate feeds leading to wrong decisions being taken on the battlefield. Communication systems, guidance systems, and situational awareness management systems could be targeted with intrusion or extended scans to exfiltrate data.
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Supply chains have become a preferential target for hackers. Government reports from the UK, USA and many other parts of the world confirm the growing attacks on supply chains impacting businesses and even government agencies. Such attacks often involve secondary or even tertiary targets that are attacked through a series of breaches across organizations connected through
Supply chain cybersecurity tips from NSA and CISA are timely and critical Read More »
In the last 48 hours, Chinese threat actors APT 27 and 41 have shown extraordinary levels of activity. The fallout from the recent geopolitical events continue to define the sequence of events in the region. APT 27 which is a decade-old threat actor, was at the forefront of the latest spike in cyberattacks on Taiwan.
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As per a series of conversations intercepted by Sectrio’s threat research team from various forums, China is learned to have identified Beijing-based APT 41 and Haikou, Hainan-based APT 40 as nodal cyber offense teams to initiate revenge attacks against many countries. Through these attacks, China may try to gain control over the narrative that has
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In January 2022, we witnessed a huge rise in ransomware attacks specifically on IoT and IT networks. Most of these attacks were designed to lock up the data, copy parts or whole of it and then dump the data on the Dark Web. If media reports are to be believed, many organizations that ended up
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The convergence of IT-OT and IoT has opened new avenues for hackers to target systems based on those three technologies. OT however, has been impacted uniquely as the security dimensions of OT have not been fully understood by security practitioners. With the collapse of the traditional air-gapped systems, OT devices are now being targeted extensively
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