Risk Assessments/Management

SecurityWeek reports that initial access brokers and ransomware-as-a-service groups have been forging stronger relationships with each other.

Symantec researchers estimated that Clipminer botnet operators were able to exfiltrate at least $1.7 million discovered across 4,375 cryptocurrency wallet addresses, according to SecurityWeek.

Conti ransomware has been discovered by Eclypsium researchers to have been creating exploits leveraging Intel firmware flaws, The Register reports.

VentureBeat reports that 45% of cybersecurity professionals have been mulling to exit the industry, while 46% said they knew one or more people who left the industry due to stress during the past 12 months.

Mobile devices using UNISOC's 4G and 5G chipsets are affected by a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20210, which has since been addressed by UNISOC, reports TechRepublic.

Insurance companies have set more stringent cyber liability underwriting requirements – and that’s why companies have to develop a clear picture of their entire data infrastructure.

Thirty percent of cybersecurity professionals around the world intend to shift to other careers in at least two years, signaling the possible worsening of the cybersecurity skills shortage amid increasingly sophisticated threats, reports ZDNet.