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NCC Group appoints Siân John as CTO to drive innovation and strengthen their position as a leading cybersecurity consultancy.
Cybersecurity expert Tim Anderson becomes new CCO of e2e-assure with overall responsibility for commercial strategy, sales, and business growth.
It comes after back-to-back record months in June and July, largely the result of Cl0ps MOVEit exploitation and the ongoing impact of the attack.
The findings mark a 154% increase year-on-year (198 attacks in July 2022), and a 16% rise on the previous month (434 attacks in June 2023).
June's high levels of activity has been driven by Clop's exploitation of the MOVEit file transfer software vulnerability.
April saw the second highest volume of attacks ever recorded by NCC Group's Global Threat Intelligence team, with ransomware attacks remaining at record highs.
Ransomware attacks surged in February with a 45% increase from January, highlighting the growing threat, according to NCC Group's analysis.
NCC Group appoints Doug Klotnia as Global Capability Leader for Managed Services, aiming to deliver threat intelligence-led real-time defenses.
Though a significant drop from the previous month, the total is the highest volume of attacks recorded in January over the last three years.
Ransomware attacks decreased by 5% in 2022, but saw a surge between February and April due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, says a report by NCC Group.
Analysis from NCC Group's Global Threat Intelligence team credits the increase to returning threat actor groups resurfacing and taking the lead in November.
The number of victims of ransomware attacks appears to have stabilised during April 2022, according to NCC Group.
According to NCC Group's Strategic Threat Intelligence team, ransomware attacks increased by 52.89% compared to January.
The findings build upon a gradual but noticeable rise in ransomware attacks since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Global cyber security and risk mitigation firm, NCC Group, has identified a considerable decrease in ransomware attacks in December 2021.
NCC Group launches Replicate - Recover, a cloud service offering maximum resilience against disruption of third-party cloud-based software.
Ransomware attacks have increased by 288% in Q2 2021, with data leaks and double extortion becoming prevalent, warns NCC Group.
Organisations face heightened cyber attack risk due to pandemic-related budget cuts, redundancies and remote working, warns NCC Group.
DDoS extortion attacks are on the rise, with targeted organizations receiving demands to make payments in cryptocurrency to cease further attacks.
Amidst the flurry of activity during the holiday season, businesses are warned to protect themselves from DDoS attacks.
