Compromised network edge devices accounted for initial compromise in 30% of incidents impacting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in 2024. VPN exploitation alone was the most frequent compromise point across all cases, at 19%.

Cyberattacks on the energy sector are rising due to geopolitical/tech factors. A July 2024 Sophos report found 67% of 275 surveyed energy/utility leaders experienced ransomware attacks in the last year.

Over three-fifths of US and British water and electricity firms were targeted by cyber-attacks in the past year, with a majority suffering serious disruption. 59% revealed that the attack had disrupted normal operations.

There’s been a notable shift in the types of threats targeting software developers, with a total of 17,954 open source malware packages identified in Q1 2025, according to Sonatype.

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a spike in suspicious login scanning activity targeting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways, with nearly 24,000 unique IP addresses attempting to access these portals.

Cybercriminals have ramped up their use of lookalike domains to facilitate a variety of targeted email-based social engineering and financial fraud scams, according to a new report by BlueVoyant.

The EU’s leading cybersecurity agency has published a detailed new report outlining the threat landscape and recommended steps to mitigate the most acute risks in the space sector.

A new analysis of mobile security threats by Zimperium has revealed that rooted and jailbroken devices are 250 times more vulnerable to system compromise incidents than standard devices.

HP's latest Threat Insights Report has revealed a surge in malicious CAPTCHA campaigns, where users are tricked into running PowerShell commands that install the Lumma Stealer remote access trojan (RAT).

The first few months of 2025 saw a massive spike in phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) attacks targeting organizations around the world, with more than a million attacks detected by Barracuda systems in January and February.