A quarter of all cyber-attacks in the Asia-Pacific region are motivated by espionage according to figures released by Verizon Business.
This contrast sharply with that of Europe and North America, at 6% and 4% respectively and shows data harvesting and scraping is a continued threat to businesses of all sizes.
UK businesses can reduce cyber-attack costs by up to 75% (£30b) by implementing simple cybersecurity basics more widely.
This is the view of international insurance intermediary group Howden, which recently revealed that cyber-attacks have cost UK businesses £44bn in the last five years.
When it comes to discovering who benefits from bots the answer is a complicated one as not every bot has malicious intent.
However, according to Statista, the latest figures from 2023 show the estimated annual cost of cybercrime in the UK was the equivalent of $320 billion.
Recent growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) takes advantage of Machine Learning (ML) to fuel rapid technological development in many ways.
One of those is within cybersecurity, especially when it comes to learning how to combat the ever-growing threat of malicious bots and cybercriminals deploying AI as a means of accessing personal data and hijacking business websites for financial gain.
Cybercrime is here to stay and an important part of any company’s security measures should include identifying malicious bot types.
According to the UK Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2023, 32% of all UK businesses and 24% of charities reported a cyberattack in the past 12 months.
There are exciting times ahead in Viet Nam as the 5th Ho Chi Minh City Economic Forum opened this week looking at industrial transformation goals.
Viet Nam’s Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính officially inaugurated the Viet Nam Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) at Sai Gon Hi-Tech Park as part of the opening events.
The European Union’s AI Act has now gone into force four years after it was first proposed – and marketers need to be prepared for it.
Although the AI Act will not directly impact UK businesses’ domestic operations, the legislation will still play a role in governing their operations in the EU, especially for those who wish to trade within it.
Applying due diligence is vital when it comes to ad fraud prevention and it should be a key priority for anyone working with marketing budgets or looking at investment.
The world of digital marketing is a rapidly changing one, and ad fraud is a primary concern for everyone in the industry.
AI in cybercrime has become a powerful new weapon for scammers and many people are falling for sophisticated schemes that use stolen identity data.
A PwC report, in collaboration with Stop Scams UK, published last December found identifying the scale of AI use by scammers is a difficult task. Voice cloning has become a growing concern for the authorities when it comes to ransomware scams.
Rule changes surrounding cyber risks which have already seen Uber’s former CISO sentenced to three years’ probation should be of concern to all C-Suite executives.
Joseph Sullivan, Uber’s former chief information security officer, was found guilty of paying hackers $100,000 (£79,000) after they gained access to 57 million records of Uber customers, including names and phone numbers.
Businesses need to be aware that their data could be at risk if they use third party providers in their supply chain.
A spate of recent cyber-attacks on supply chain providers has seen sensitive data leaked or held to ransom from organisations including the Ministry of Defence, The Metropolitan Police, and a significant number of charities.
Cyber Security for charities & third sector should be a priority as almost a quarter of all UK charities were the victims of a cyber-attack in 2023.
The figures come from the Cyber Security Breaches Survey, published by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and highlight the dangers charities and third sector organisations face from cyber criminals.
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