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Cyber

Cyber Attacks Disrupting U.S. Government and Businesses To Increase Over Next Six Months, According To Report

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

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Cyber Attacks Disrupting U.S. Government and Businesses To Increase Over Next Six Months, According To Report

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Threats to the cyber domain, in line with the recent WannaCry and NotPetya malware attacks, are anticipated to grow over the next six months as state-sponsored and rogue actors continue expanding their capabilities to disrupt businesses and undermine governmental institutions with increasingly accessible tools, according to a report by Accenture Security’s iDefense unit released Tuesday. The 2017 Cyber Threatscape Report examines cyber trends from the first half of 2017 and collected data to predict an increase in the number of…

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