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2024 Sophos Threat Report: Cybercrime on Main Street Details Cyberthreats Facing SMBs

News Desk 1 13/03/2024

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released its annual 2024 Sophos Threat Report, with this year’s report detailing “Cybercrime on Main Street” and the biggest threats facing small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs*). According to the report,

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Sophos Expands Commitment to the Channel with New Dedicated Partner Care Offering

News Desk 1 22/02/2024

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, is expanding its commitment to the channel with the addition of Partner Care, a new offering in its global partner program that features a dedicated, 24×7 team of Sophos experts who handle non-sales related questions and operational support. The offering is designed to […]

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Sophos is a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses in 2024

News Desk 1 15/02/2024

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today announced that it is a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses 2024 Vendor Assessment, which evaluates the solutions and business strategies of 16 modern endpoint security (MES) vendors. Sophos Endpoint defends more than 300,000

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Criminals Leverage “As-a-Service” Business Model with Sha Zhu Pan Kits

News Desk 1 07/02/2024

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today revealed how sha zhu pan scammers—those conducting elaborate, romance-based cryptocurrency fraud—are leveraging a business model similar to cybercrime “as-a-service” by selling sha zhu pan kits on the dark web, globally expanding to new markets. Sophos details these advanced sha

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Sophos Positioned a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

News Desk 1 15/01/2024

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today announced that it is positioned as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP), marking the 14th consecutive time the company has been a Leader in the report. “We believe Gartner recognized Sophos again, due to our […]

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Prolific Ransomware Groups Intentionally Switch On Remote Encryption for Attacks

News Desk 1 08/01/2024

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released a report, titled “CryptoGuard: An Asymmetric Approach to the Ransomware Battle,” which found that some of the most prolific and active ransomware groups, including Akira, ALPHV/BlackCat, LockBit, Royal, Black Basta, are deliberately switching on remote encryption for their

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Sophos Anticipates AI-Based Attack Techniques and Prepares Detections

News Desk 1 29/11/2023

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released two reports about the use of AI in cybercrime. The first report—“The Dark Side of AI: Large-Scale Scam Campaigns Made Possible by Generative AI”—demonstrates how, in the future, scammers could leverage technology like ChatGPT to conduct fraud on a massive scale […]

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Sophos Advances Active Adversary Defenses with New Security Solutions

News Desk 1 23/11/2023

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today introduced several new solutions that advance critical defenses against active adversaries. Sophos exposes how these active adversaries are now carrying out ransomware “fast” attacks in mere hours in “The 2023 Active Adversary Report for Security Practitioners” also published today. The

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Cybercriminals Disabled or Wiped Out Logs in 82% of Attacks with Missing Telemetry

News Desk 1 15/11/2023

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released its Active Adversary Report for Security Practitioners, which found that telemetry logs were missing in nearly 42% of the attack cases studied. In 82% of these cases, cybercriminals disabled or wiped out the telemetry to hide their tracks. The report covers […]

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Retail Organizations Attacked by Ransomware Increasingly Unable to Halt an Attack in Progress, Sophos Survey Finds

News Desk 1 09/11/2023

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today shared findings from its sector survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Retail 2023,” which found that only 26% of retail organizations this past year were able to disrupt a ransomware attack before their data was encrypted. This is a three-year low […]

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Cybercriminals Successfully Encrypted Data in Ransomware Attacks

News Desk 1 02/11/2023

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today shared its sector survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2023,” which revealed that, among those organizations surveyed, cybercriminals successfully encrypted data in nearly 75% of ransomware attacks. This is the highest rate of encryption in the past three years and […]

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The whole world is seen as fair play for cybercriminals

Arnold Pinto 21/10/2023 0

Sophos presents advanced cybersecurity solutions at GITEX Global 2023 Cybercriminals – individuals or organisations – invariably do not target specific regions, such as the Middle East, to launch cyberattacks. Instead, they treat the whole world as fair play for their nefarious activities. Speaking at GITEX Global 2023, John Shier, Field CTO at Sophos, noted that […]

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Sha Zhu Pan Scammers Use Fake Cryptocurrency Trading Pools

News Desk 1 30/09/2023

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released findings on a major shā zhū pán (pig butchering) operation utilizing fake trading pools of cryptocurrency (liquidity pools) to steal more than $1 million. The report, “Latest Evolution of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scam Lures Victim in Fake Mining Scheme,” details the story […]

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CryptoRom Scammers Add AI Chat Tool, Like ChatGPT, and Fake Hacks on Crypto Accounts to Their Toolset, Sophos Finds

News Desk 2 08/08/2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – August 8, 2023 – Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released new findings on CryptoRom scams—a subset of pig butchering (shā zhū pán) schemes designed to trick users of dating apps into making fake cryptocurrency investments—in its latest report, “Sha Zhu Pan Scam […]

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The Education Sector Reports the Highest Rate of Ransomware Attacks, Sophos Survey Finds

News Desk 2 02/08/2023

Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, released a new sectoral survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Education 2023,” which found that education reported the highest rate of ransomware attacks in 2022. Over the past year, 79% of higher educational organizations surveyed reported being hit by ransomware, while 80% […]

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More Than Two-Thirds of Manufacturing Companies Hit by Ransomware Had Their Data Encrypted

News Desk 2 03/07/2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – July 3, 2023 – Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service  today announced a new sectoral survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production 2023,” which found that in more than two-thirds (68%) of ransomware attacks against this sector, the adversaries successfully encrypted […]

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Data Encryption from Ransomware Reaches Highest Level in Four Years, Sophos’ Annual State of Ransomware Report Finds

News Desk 2 11/05/2023

Doha, Qatar – May 11, 2023 – Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released its annual “State of Ransomware 2023” report, which found that in 76% of ransomware attacks against surveyed organizations, adversaries succeeded in encrypting data. This is the highest rate of data encryption from ransomware since […]

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Cyberattackers Leveraged More Than 500 Unique Tools and Tactics in 2022

News Desk 2 26/04/2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – April 26, 2023 – Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released its Active Adversary Report for Business Leaders, an in-depth look at the changing behaviors and attack techniques that adversaries used in 2022. The data, analyzed from more than 150 Sophos Incident Response […]

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Sophos Promotes Joe Levy to President of Sophos Technology Group

News Desk 2 12/04/2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – April 12, 2023 – Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today announced the promotion of Joe Levy to president of the Sophos Technology Group (STG). Sophos also appointed Bill Robbins president, Worldwide Field Operations.  Levy is currently Sophos’ chief technology officer and chief product […]

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93% of Organizations Find the Execution of Essential Security Operation Tasks Challenging

News Desk 2 05/04/2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates  – April 5, 2023 – Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today published a new survey report, “The State of Cybersecurity 2023: The Business Impact of Adversaries on Defenders,” which found that, globally, 93% of organizations find the execution of some essential security operation tasks, […]