This latest Global Threat Landscape Report represents FortiGuard Labs’ collective intelligence, drawn from Fortinet’s vast array of sensors that collected billions of threat events observed around the world during the first half of 2022, the report discusses global and regional perspectives.

The Saudi National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) has announced the return of the Global Cybersecurity Forum (GCF), a platform driving the global cybersecurity agenda that was founded and is hosted by the Saudi National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA).

A wave of cybercriminals propagating malware families, including QakBot, IceID, Emotet, and RedLine Stealer, are switching to shortcut (LNK) files to deliver malware, according to HP Inc.’s quarterly Threat Insights Report.

According to Kaspersky Security Network data, the number of exploits detected in the Middle East in Q2 2022 increased from Q1 – the company’s security solutions detected 1,258,283 cases between April and June 2022.

A year ago, Unit 42 released its 2021 Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report, which documented how cybercriminals had used the windfall profits generated from cyber extortion to transform themselves into massive criminal enterprises, some with near-nation state cyber capabilities. We warned that cyber extortion had reached crisis levels due to the wild success of a criminal business model known as ransomware as a service (RaaS).