Among the wide range of reasons that cause cybersecurity incidents, inappropriate use of IT resources by employees remains a challenge for businesses. In 2019, half (52% enterprise, 50% SMBs) of companies faced a data breach because of this, as revealed in a Kaspersky survey of IT decision makers. Quite surprisingly, companies experienced this almost as …
Only 25% of people surveyed enabled anti-theft features
2018 could see ransomware attacks on industrial sector to obtain cryptocurrency, Suvorov says
Kaspersky Lab IT Security Economics Report revealed that 77% of companies were hit by some kind of cyber attack during the past year. Moreover, the report stated that the situation gets worse in the holiday season, especially during the sales season. Furthermore, the report explained that in that period, there are more shoppers online and …
Although the majority of industrial organisations believe they are well-prepared for cybersecurity incidents, this confidence may be not well-founded. Every second, ICS companies experienced between one and five incidents last year, according to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab. On average, ineffective cybersecurity costs industrial organisations up to $497,000 per year. The emerging industry 4.0 …
The US is source of 15.2% of malicious e-mails
This is due to the increase in consumer transactions during the season.
Egypt had the highest level of local infection with 51.3%; online risks were moderate, Kaspersky Lab says
More than 50% of the users lose all their personal data
