Google’s new pilot program in India aims to enhance user protection against financial fraud by blocking risky app installations from unverified sources as part of its “Enhanced Fraud Prevention” initiative within Google Play Protect.
The Counter Ransomware Initiative, comprising 39 countries, has issued a guidance document aimed at helping organizations respond to ransomware incidents while discouraging ransom payments and promoting proactive cybersecurity measures.
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a comprehensive framework that enables organizations to continuously assess and mitigate cyber risks across their entire attack surface in response to evolving cyber threats.
Insider threats, arising from individuals misusing their access within organizations, have increased significantly, with 83% of organizations reporting such attacks in 2024 and remediation costs reaching up to $2 million.
The financially motivated threat actor “PaidMemes” has shifted its ransomware attacks from Europe to Central and South America, deploying the BabyLockerKZ variant of MedusaLocker, which has doubled the number of victims per month since early 2023.
In September 2024, Cloudflare successfully defended against the largest recorded DDoS attack, which peaked at 3.8 terabits per second, utilizing advanced autonomous systems to manage the threat without human intervention.
