City of York Council has engaged the help of Barracuda Networks to help protect its Office 365 data with the security firm’s flagship product, Cloud-to-Cloud Backup. The City of York Council in Yorkshire, England, is the unitary authority responsible for allocating resources and delivering services to the more than 210,000 residents of the City of York. For Infrastructure Services Technical Lead, Ian Towner, that responsibili...

In 2020, 4,550 organisations used barracuda email threat scanner to scan 2,600,531 unique mailboxes and found 2,029,413 unique email attacks. On average, 512 attacks were found per organisation, and one out of seven mailboxes (14%) had at least one attack currently sitting inside, even if messages were scanned by an email gateway solution.

Cyber criminals targeting web applications are not getting their hands as dirty, as a surge in automated cyber attacks targeting web applications is recorded by Barracuda Networks, provider for cloud-enabled security solutions.

More than 1,000 educational institutions, such as schools, colleges and universities, have been targeted by over 3.5 million spear-phishing attacks from June through to September 2020. This is according to new research from Barracuda Networks, the trusted partner and leading provider for cloud-enabled security solutions, released in their most recent ‘Threat Spotlight’.

The Open University, which is based in London, has been bombarded by 1,191,312 malicious email attacks over the past nine months, from January 2020 to September 2020. This is according to official data obtained by a Parliament Street think tank via a Freedom of Information act request.

Barracuda, a trusted partner and a leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions, has announced new functionality for their CloudGen WAN solution, a secure SD-WAN service built natively on Microsoft Azure. The update includes personal remote access functionality, allowing users to connect directly to CloudGen WAN gateways that run inside Microsoft Azure Virtual Hubs.

Local government bodies are the most likely target for ransomware attacks, according to new threat spotlight research from Barracuda Networks. The research, which identified and analysed 71 global ransomware incidents in the last 112 months, found that 44% of all observed ransomware attacks in 2020 have been aimed at municipalities.

A new variant of the cryptominer malware ‘Golang’, is targeting Windows and Linux machines, according to researchers at Barracuda Networks, a provider for cloud-enabled security solutions.

Almost half (46%) of global businesses have encountered at least one cyber security scare since shifting to a remote working model during the COVID-19 lockdown, according to official research by Barracuda Networks. An astounding 49% also said they expect to see a data breach or cyber security incident in the next month due to remote working.

Cyber criminals are cashing-in on the COVID-19 crisis by launching a wave of Coronavirus-related email phishing attacks, according to new research from Barracuda Networks.