Five shocking truths about your data and cybercrime

Section 1 – Introduction

Welcome to the Secarma Threat Report. This series provides regular updates on the key risks facing businesses in protecting their data and systems. Each edition provides an overview of the risk landscape and shines a light on a key area of growing threat. 

As we move through 2024, organisations of all sizes continue to place data loss high up on their risk registers and the majority of organisations find keeping pace with new malicious techniques extremely challenging.

In this report we focus on five key areas and help you to understand the exploits behind some of the recent high-profile hacks on TicketMaster (Live Nation), Santander and Synnovis that have impacted the data of millions of individuals. We also look back on British Airways, Medibank and The British Library and see how their own misadventures fit into the growing threat environment.

1. Third Party Software Exploitation
2. Password Attacks - Exploiting the lazy gene!
3. Phishing, Smishing, no wait Quishing!
4. Upload Forms - Leaving the door wide open…
5. Ransomware and the WFH revolution