Manufacturing organizations manage complex and interconnected environments, where availability is critical and unplanned downtime costs, on average, $148 per second – or almost $9,000 per minute.
That makes manufacturing companies particularly susceptible to disruptive threats like ransomware.
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Source: Ponemon - Cost of Data Breach report 2021
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The Healthcare industry is undergoing a digital transformation while also facing a shortage of skilled workers.
Patient privacy is paramount, but healthcare organizations also need to be able to access patient data at all times, and trust in the readings given by medical equipment. Ransomware attacks and data breaches (often together) can impact data confidentiality, availability and integrity, and ultimately disruption of patient care.
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Law firms routinely deal with sensitive information, including huge volumes of confidential corporate data.
Not only must they protect client data, but a firm's integrity and reputation are critical to maintaining customer trust. As a result, they are prime targets for insiders, cyber criminals, and even state-sponsored espionage groups looking to steal, expose, or sell data.
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The open nature of educational institution networks can make them an easy target for opportunistic cyber criminals and vulnerable to insider threats.
Given the large volume of student fees and money being transferred, especially in higher education, institutions are particularly susceptible to social engineering attacks and ransomware. Academic institutions are also targeted by sophisticated state-sponsored espionage groups looking to steal intellectual property.
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Gartner research shows that 88% of boards regard cybersecurity as a business risk rather than solely a technical IT problem. Data breaches in general cost $4.24 million per incident on average.
Despite mandated compliance and regulatory standards, cybersecurity is still an issue for financial institutions who remain a lucrative target for cyber criminals.
Phishing schemes continue to be one of the most popular tactics threat actors use to access networks, as 24% of FS-ISAC member-reported incidents are phishing campaigns targeting employees.
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The retail industry is a target for financially motivated criminals looking to cash in on payment cards and personal information.
Custom malware can be used to infect point-of-sale (POS) systems, while eCommerce sites face the constant threat of mass online fraud. Retailers must comply with Payment Card Industry standards (PCI), meaning that breaches must be detected quickly and thoroughly investigated.
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Percentage of educational institution breaches which included unauthorized disclosure of data.
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The average cost of a data breach in the legal industry is $7.5 million.
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In Threatopolis, businesses are faced with a constant barrage of cybercriminal activity — impacting each of their industries in different ways.
How can they prevent, detect, and respond effectively to these threat actors?
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The average retail data breach in 2024 jumped 18% to
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Ransomware is one of the most prevalent and disruptive forms of cyberattack in recent years and has grown into a multimillion-dollar global enterprise. In ransomware attacks, a threat actor breaks into a network and then deploys malware that encrypts files on business-critical devices. They then demand a ransom payment in exchange for the secret key needed to decrypt the files.
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Email services are lucrative targets for threat actors, yet are often overlooked by organizations. BEC exploits the fact that so many of us rely on email to conduct business. In BEC scams, criminals use access to a compromised email account to identify an upcoming financial transaction, and then replace the legitimate payment details with a bank account under their control. The buying party, totally unaware that anything is amiss, then pays their money into the fraudulent account.
Business Email compromise (BEC)
In cryptojacking attacks, threat actors access one or more computers or mobile devices to run cryptocurrency-mining software. They abuse the resources of the compromised machines to mine cryptocurrency, causing cost and disruption to the victim. If threat actors are able to gain unauthorized access to an organization's cloud resources, then they can quickly rack up massive costs.
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Cobalt Strike is a commercially available and popular command and control (C2) framework used by the security community as well as a wide range of threat actors. The robust use of Cobalt Strike lets threat actors perform intrusions with precision.
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Zero-day are exploits for vulnerabilities where a patch has not yet been released.
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With phishing, threat actors send emails that attempt to trick the recipient into divulging sensitive information, like login credentials or bank details, or trick them into installing malware on their device. Typically, phishing attacks use social engineering tricks to appear authentic or urge the recipient to take action without thinking. In spear phishing attacks, rather than send out emails indiscriminately, the threat actor deliberately identifies their targets in advance.
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The average total cost of a data breach in the industrial sector is $5.56 million. This reflects an 18% increase for the sector compared to 2023
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