Industry Latest News

Our industry news section includes a wide range of news items of particular relevance to the cybersecurity sector and managed service providers (MSPs).

This section also sources details of the most recent white papers and research studies relating to malware, ransomware, phishing and data breaches. These articles allow some insight into the general state of cybersecurity, the industries currently most heavily aimed for by cybercriminals, and figures and statistics for your own reports.

Cybercriminals use massive spam campaigns designed to infect as many computers as they can. These attacks are random, using email addresses stolen in large data breaches such as the cyberattacks on LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and Yahoo. However, highly targeted attacks are on the up, with campaigns geared to specific sectors. These industry-specific cyberattacks and spam and malware campaigns are covered in this section, along with possible mitigations for reducing the danger of a successful attack.

This category is therefore important for organizations in the education, healthcare, and financial services sectors – the most common attacked industries according to the latest security reports.

The articles cover current campaigns, spam email identifiers and details of the social engineering tactics used to trick end users and gain access to corporate networks. By using the advice in these articles, it may be possible to stop similar attacks.