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1 week ago | 
cybersecurityventures.com | Taylor Fox
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1 week ago | 
cybersecurityventures.com | Taylor Fox
Cybercrime Magazine’s Deputy Editor Amanda Glassner and VP Kyle Haglund caught up with BreachLock’s founder and CEO Seemant Sehgal at this week’s RSA Conference 2025 in San Francisco. The next best thing to visiting the BreachLock exhibit booth is reading their super-informative blog. A recent post takes us beyond Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) and helps us understand the rise of malware-less cyberattacks.
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1 week ago | 
cybersecurityventures.com | Taylor Fox
Telecommunications are the lifeblood of the modern world, connecting billions of people and devices. This makes them a prime target for sophisticated cyberattacks, according to Nokia. Forget phishing emails; today’s attackers are using artificial intelligence to automate multi-layered attacks, manipulate real-time communications, and develop malicious code capable of bypassing conventional IT defense systems.
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2 weeks ago | 
cybersecurityventures.com | Taylor Fox
10 Best Cybersecurity Names At RSA Conference 2025 Posted at 14:50h in Blogs Marketing lesson from CISOs– Steve Morgan, Editor-in-ChiefSausalito, Calif. – Apr. 29, 2025Who has the best cybersecurity name at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this year? It depends on who you ask.
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2 weeks ago | 
cybersecurityventures.com | Taylor Fox
AI is expanding a $2 trillion total addressable market (TAM) for cybersecurity providers, according to a 2024/2025 study by McKinsey, a global management consulting firm and trusted advisor to the world’s leading businesses, governments, and institutions. “One of the areas that is extremely compelling is the opportunity to build a security layer around agentic AI,” says Richard Seewald, founder and Managing Partner at Evolution Equity Partners.
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2 weeks ago | 
cybersecurityventures.com | Taylor Fox
The imperative to protect increasingly digitized businesses, governments, schools, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and consumers from cybercrime will propel global spending on cybersecurity products and services to $1 trillion (USD) annually by 2031, according to the “Cybersecurity Market Report” due out from Cybersecurity Ventures and Evolution Equity Partners on Jun. 16, 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
cybersecurityventures.com | Taylor Fox
TechRadar Pro recently reported that five dating apps exposed over 1.5 million private and explicit images after storing the images in cloud storage buckets without any password protection. Cybersecurity researchers found the image servers of BDSM People, Chica, Pink, Brish, and Translove to be highly vulnerable to hackers, putting between 800,000 and 900,000 people at risk of blackmail and extortion.
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2 weeks ago | 
cybersecurityventures.com | Taylor Fox
Cybercrime Magazine’s First YouTube Video: A 60-Second Walk In The Park Posted at 08:33h in Blogs This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine–Watch the YouTube VideoSausalito, Calif. – Apr. 24, 2025The Verge reports that the platform’s first video, “Me at the Zoo,” was uploaded to YouTube on Apr.
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3 weeks ago | 
cybersecurityventures.com | Taylor Fox
As ransomware, social engineering, and AI-driven deception reshape the threat landscape, cyberinsurance brokers are under pressure to deliver more than just policies – they need partners who can respond in real time and keep pace with emerging risks. Global cybercrime costs hit $8 trillion in 2023 and are projected to grow to $10.5 trillion by 2025, according to Cybersecurity Ventures.
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3 weeks ago | 
cybersecurityventures.com | Taylor Fox
Cybersecurity Ventures publishes a chart at RansomwareCost.com containing our calculations of global ransomware damage cost predictions from 2015 to 2031. For this year, 2025, we predict that ransomware costs will reach $57 billion annually. The 2025 calculation breaks down to $4.8 billion per month, $1.1 billion per week, $156 million per day, $6.5 million per hour, $109,000 per minute, and $2,400 per second. Our first ever prediction, for 2015, put the annual cost of ransomware at $325 million.
