According to a recent report by Check Point Software, the number of publicly disclosed ransomware incidents increased approximately 60% year over year as of December. In fact, there were nearly 1,000 reported incidents in December alone. This marks a clear increase in the consistency and scale of ransomware growth.
A potential contributor to this increase is the fact that ransomware is becoming more and more of an industrialized business model. Ransomware as a service (RaaS) ecosystems allows
In a recent Forbes article, technical author Davey Winder shared insights into a Check Point blog post. Hackers have been seen using AI which very nearly compromised the account of a Gmail user, as explained in a recent report by Winder. Now both Gmail and AI are back in the forefront, but now as part of a large-scale hacking campaign targeting both consumers and corporates with a financially-motivated payload. Check Point analyzes the new campaign the CopyRh(ight)adamantys cyber-attack.
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Ireland’s businesses have been warned of the need to have cyber security safeguards during a recent cyber security conference staged in Belfast. The Check Point Cyber Security Summit took place at Titanic Belfast, with bosses from Microsoft and NI’s GitHub leading the conversation on how to combat hackers and cyber threats.
Billed as a summit unlike any other in the cyber security realm, convening cyber and business leaders from across the public and private sectors in Northern Ireland, the eve
