Cyber extortion dominates the threat landscape

Cyber extortion is impacting businesses of all sizes across the world, and 82 percent of observed are small businesses, an increase from 78 percent last year. The latest Security Navigator report from Orange Cyberdefense shows a marked slow-down in cybercrime at the onset of the Ukraine war, but intensity soon increasing again. Over the last six months, for example, the number of cyber extortion victims in East Asia and South East Asia has grown by 30 percent and 33 percent respectively. From 2021 to 2022 victim volumes increased in the European Union by 18 percent, in the UK by 21… [...