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The FortiGuard Labs threat research team analyzed real-world threat data from around the globe to create this insightful report. It not only shares findings on the most prevalent exploits, malware, and botnets, but offers observations on threat variance by region and industry for an accurate picture of worldwide threat activity. Download full report.

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Attacks targeting and originating from IoT devices began grabbing news headlines toward the last quarter of 2016. Insecure IoT devices became the low-hanging fruit for threat actors to easily exploit. Some were even notoriously used as botnets to launch DDoS attacks against selected targets. For example, the infamous Mirai botnet exploited weak login vulnerabilities in...

Cyber-attacks pose a significant threat to universities, every hour of every day. An attack can dramatically impact your organisation by causing disruption and compromising data, reducing and even shutting down normal service. It’s vital to protect what’s most important to you, for example sensitive data, intellectual property and research data. How sure are you that you’re protecting...

The healthcare industry continues to ride the digital wave to improve patient care and organisational efficiency while reducing costs. To do this, hospitals and health systems are relying on electronic health records (EHRs), the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT) more than ever. While these technologies are convenient, efficient, and enable a higher degree...

This Global Healthcare Threat Telemetry report examines the threat landscape of the global healthcare industry in Q4 2016. It is based on threat telemetry obtained by FortiGuard Labs’ research group from sensors located at 454 healthcare companies located in 50 countries around the globe. FortiGuard Labs, and its more than 200 researchers and analysts located...

While there are many types of malware, including viruses, worms, Trojans, Spyware, Adware, and others, ransomware has gained the most notoriety over the last few years in part due to the popularity of crypto currency such as Bitcoin, as well its brazen ability to grind productivity to a complete halt.Simply put, ransomware is a considerable...

With 2016 in the books, we can take a look back and see that it was a banner year for cybercriminals. From the successful breach of the DNC to DDoS attacks that disrupted service for tens of millions of IP addresses, it seemed as though no industry or organisation was completely safe from threats. Due...

IT teams in the financial services industry have historically invested in, and deployed, web application firewalls (WAFs) to comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). However, many of today’s data security professionals recognise that unprotected web applications have become attractive targets for cybercriminals looking for easy entry points into their networks. In...

Enterprises have rapidly incorporated cloud computing over the last decade, and that trend only seems to be accelerating. Private cloud infrastructure, including virtualisation and software-defined networking (SDN), is in the process of transforming on-premise data centres, which host the majority of enterprise server workloads around the world. Enterprises are also embracing public clouds at an...

On Oct 21, 2016, yet another cyber assault happened on a large DNS provider’s infrastructure, bringing down websites and services on the east coast of the United States. While it is easy to launch these attacks, the solutions available in the market have not kept pace. FortiDDoS is the only hardware logic solution in the market...

This week’s FortiGuard Threat Intelligence Brief reports on a spike in an Android advertising library, a fake series of banking sites used to phish credentials, as well as a campaign using the old faithful “we couldn’t deliver your package” courier scam. While hackers weren’t quite as active as they were over the past couple of weeks, our...