The Q4 Threat Intelligence report from Mimecast has offered security bosses an assessment of the greatest cybersecurity risks their online defences are likely to encounter.
The Mimecast report, based in part on Mimecast’s analysis of 1.7 billion emails per day on behalf of more than 42,000 customers, revealed extortion campaigns, geopolitical threats, and attacks on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are among the greatest threats to cybersecurity defences.
It comes after the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), recently issued a warning about global ransomware threat levels, in a world where artificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming increasingly pervasive. It said will almost AI will certainly “increase the volume and impact of cyber attacks in the next two years.”
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Mimecast’s Q4 Threat Intelligence report also found found that “attackers are using generative AI and machine-learning models to create more convincing phishing lures and translate attacks into other languages.”
The report also looked at what issues are presenting the biggest threat to online defences, and offered recommendations for cybersecurity bosses to…
