Apparently, the technology utilizes intelligence gathered from a high-end AI-powered system – ThreatCloud AI.
The maps shows countries and companies that are particularly targeted with cyber incidents like malware attacks, phishing or exploitation.
How are Cyber Activities Impacted by the War According to a US-Israeli cyber security firm, Check Point, cyber activities have increased at an alarming rate in the past 17 months, reason being the Ukraine war.
Over the previous six months, the UK was attacked 854 times on average every week. As of May 2023, ransomware attacks have a negative effect on one out of every 77 organizations in the country.
According to Muhammad Yahya Patel, lead security engineer and evangelist for Check Point, “The threat landscape has continued to evolve in sync with the digital world as we are more connected to the internet than ever before. This has led to multi-vector cyberattacks and well thought out campaigns by criminals who want to cause maximum damage to organizations[…]Sometimes they use advanced tools and methods, while other times it’s a simple method like getting someone to click a link in an email."
Moreover, the UK has been suffering an online conflict as a group of hackers, have targeted prominent British organizations, frequently with links to the Kremlin that are either verified or rumored.
“Hacktivism has played a much bigger role globally with several state-sponsored groups and cyber criminals actively fighting a war in cyberspace[…]We had the Ukrainian government taking an unprecedented step by using a Telegram channel to call for international volunteers to help fight the cyber war by joining the “IT Army of Ukraine,” Patel said.
In regards to the Russia based group Killnet, Patel says, ”This is a properly established group with organizational structure and hierarchy. As an organised operation this group have been carrying out disruptive attacks to gain more attention and have recently targeted NATO.”
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This live ‘battleground’ was presented at the Midland Fraud Forum’s annual conference in Birmingham last week as a segment informing audience regarding the various threats and methods to prevent them.
The multinational company based in Tel Aviv found that the ransomware operators have become more ruthless with their tactics to profit from victims.
One of the recent cases was when the University of Manchester suffered a cyber attack last month, where allegedly the students’ confidential data was compromised. In response, the university claimed that a ‘small proportion of data’ was copied and that ‘it had written directly to those individuals who may have been affected.’
Looking at the current scenarios, universities in the UK seems to have found themselves in the frontline of the ever developing threat landscape at a level greater than any other country.
In regards to this, Patel comments, ”The attacks against the education and research sector are highly concerning because this is higher than what we are seeing globally in this industry[…]It raises questions about what the UK is doing specifically for this sector to help it have a better cyber security baseline as I like to call it.”
