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Globally, 77% of retail organisations surveyed experienced a 75% increase from 2020. This is also 11% more than the cross-sector average attack rate of 66%.

Sophos has released additional findings from its report, The Future of Cybersecurity in APJ, revealing businesses are increasingly prioritising cybersecurity.

Sophos has announced in a new whitepaper that Hive, LockBit and BlackCat, three prominent ransomware gangs, consecutively attacked the same network.

Each ransomware gang left its own ransom demand, and some of the files were triple encrypted, according to a new report from Sophos.

Sophos X-Ops leverages the predictive, real-time, real-world and researched threat intelligence from each group.

The findings reveal that education institutions are increasingly being hit with ransomware, with 60% suffering attacks in 2021 compared to 44% in 2020.

Sophos has revealed that the ransomware gang BlackCat has added Brute Ratel, a pentesting tool, to its arsenal of attack tools.

Education institutions are increasingly being hit with ransomware, with 60% suffering attacks in 2021 compared to 44% in 2020.

Research finds that there has been a 36% increase in cyber attack dwell time, with a median intruder dwell time of 15 days in 2021 versus 11 days in 2020.

New research has revealed a 94% increase in ransomware attacks on the organisations within the healthcare sector during 2021.

Sophos has announced the winners of its Australia and New Zealand Partner Awards for 2022, including Somerville as its Partner of the Year.

Next-generation cybersecurity firm Sophos has released its annual survey and review of real-world ransomware experiences in the State of Ransomware 2022.

In 2021, 80% of Australian organisations responding to the Sophos State of Ransomware study reported being hit by ransomware.

The company earned the highest overall customer rating among vendors with at least 150 verified customer reviews.

80% of Australian organizations were hit with ransomware in 2021, up from 45% in 2020, according to a new survey by Sophos.

Sophos has unveiled advancements to Sophos Cloud Workload Protection, including new Linux host and container security capabilities.

Sophos' endpoint products have been ranked top in protection and false-positive tests for enterprise, small businesses, and consumers.

Sophos survey reveals significant security challenges facing Australian businesses, including skill shortages and lack of boardroom awareness.

Attackers are using the Log4Shell vulnerability to deliver backdoors and profiling scripts to unpatched VMware Horizon servers.

Surge in crypto scams and investment frauds in Australia, particularly dating scams, raises concerns as ASIC reports doubling of financial scams in 2021.