80 Eye-Opening Cyber Security Statistics for 2019

Cyber attacks have never been more prevalent than they will be in 2019 It’s an interesting and challenging time to be working in the cyber security industry. By and large, research indicates that cybercrime is on the rise — news headlines support these findings as major companies like Marriott, Equifax, Yahoo, and Facebook find themselves in the crosshairs of cyber attacks. Even sacrosanct governmental election processes the world over are not excluded from falling prey to cybercriminals and are a part of the increasing statistics about cyber security and cyber attacks.

Phishing threats 2019: The experts tell all

It is becoming better understood that, in order to stop phishing attacks, we need to be able to see them coming. At the same time, it also helps to have an idea around which phishing and malware threats we should be keeping an eye out for.

This is according to Anton Jacobsz, CEO at value-added distributor Networks Unlimited Africa who was referencing a report shared by Cofense (formerly PhishMe), a leading provider of intelligent phishing defence solutions.

Toyota reports second breach in five weeks

For the second time in five weeks, Toyota has acknowledged a breach – this one affecting 3.1 million customers at its subsidiaries while the first was in Australia and believed to be the work of Ocean Lotus, or APT32.

The company isn’t yet sure if the hackers nicked any data from its systems but said customers of subsidiaries, including , Lexus Koishikawa Sales, Lexus Nerima, Toyota Tokyo Sales Holdings, Toyota West Tokyo Corolla, Toyota Tokyo Corolla and Tokyo Tokyo Motor were among those that could be affected.

Cyber security for FinTech: Central Security Baseline for Multi-Clouds and DevOps

Fintech is a digital native business and most of them have chosen to adopt the cloud with great success to win more banking customers.

Regulations such as the EU GDPR and financial market compliance requirements are becoming more and more restricting. Moving applications and services into cloud means also having applications in a multi-cloud or even hybrid environment.

Cyber incidents, major risks for financial services -study

The financial services industry’s biggest risks are cyber incidents, which are increasingly bringing significant disruption and financial losses to the industry. Cyber incidents take the top spot for two years running with a response rate of 46% versus 51% last year. This is according to the eighth Allianz Risk Barometer 2019, an annual survey on global business risks from Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), which incorporates the views of a record 2,415 experts from 86 countries including CEOs, risk managers, brokers and insurance experts.

New Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Found Actively Exploited in the Wild

You must update your Google Chrome immediately to the latest version of the web browsing application.

Security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group discovered and reported a high severity vulnerability in Chrome late last month that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and take full control of the computers.

The vulnerability, assigned as CVE-2019-5786, affects the web browsing software for all major operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux.

Cybersecurity companies look to artificial intelligence as they struggle to find human workers

If you’re going to the play the “AI” drinking game at RSA Conference 2019, you may not make it out alive.

Ahead of the industry’s largest trade show in San Francisco, vendors are already touting AI-based solutions meant to address one of the industry’s most pressing issues: a scarcity of workers qualified to defend against cyberattacks. Over the past week, both Palo Alto Networks Inc. PANW, -0.32%  and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.45%  announced new AI-branded services to address an often-cited lack of cybersecurity workers qualified to keep on top of an exponentially growing number of cyberattacks.

Google Ditches Passwords in Latest Android Devices

Google has announced FIDO2 certification for devices running on Android 7 and above – meaning that users can use biometrics, fingerprint login or PINs instead of passwords.

Half of all Android users can now log into apps and websites on their devices – without having to remember a cumbersome password.

On Monday, Google and the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance announced that devices running Android 7 or later are certified by the FIDO2 standard, meaning that users can forego using passwords and instead use their fingerprint or a PIN to log into browsers or apps on their devices.

When companies fight back against hackers

The deluge of cyberattacks sweeping across the world has governments and companies thinking about new ways to protect their digital systems, and the corporate and state secrets stored within.

For a long time, cybersecurity experts have erected firewalls to keep out unwanted traffic and set up decoy targets on their networks to distract hackers who do get in. They have also scoured the internet for hints about what cybercriminals might be up to next to better protect themselves and their clients.

Now, though, many leaders and officials are starting to think about stepping up their defensive activities, by taking more active measures. An extreme option within this field of active defense is sometimes called “hacking back” into an adversary’s systems to get clues about what they’re doing, shut down the attack or even delete data or otherwise damage an attacker’s computers.

Meeting the Threat in 2019: Cybersecurity for Financial Services

In September 2017, Equifax experienced an enormous data breach resulting from a cyberattack, with over 148 million people’s sensitive, personally-identifying information exposed. The hack that impacted Equifax resulted from a “failure to use well-known security best practices and a lack of internal controls and routine security reviews,” wrote Fortune.1

Just a few years before, in 2014, JP Morgan Chase experienced "the largest theft of customer data from a U.S. financial institution in history" up to that date, according to then-US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara.2 This hack was executed by exploiting known vulnerabilities in computer programs used by the company in order to access valuable customer data. As a result of this hack, close to 76 million customers had their sensitive data jeopardized.

New Mac Malware Targets Cookies to Steal From Cryptocurrency Wallets

Mac users need to beware of a newly discovered piece of malware that steals their web browser cookies and credentials in an attempt to withdraw funds from their cryptocurrency exchange accounts.

Dubbed CookieMiner due to its capability of stealing cookies-related to cryptocurrency exchanges, the malware has specifically been designed to target Mac users and is believed to be based on DarthMiner, another Mac malware that was detected in December last year.

Uncovered by Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 security research team, CookieMiner also covertly installs coin mining software onto the infected Mac machines to secretly mine for additional cryptocurrency by consuming the targeted Mac's system resources.