94 % of UK business leaders are confident in their cyber-response despite uptick in debilitating attacks
NETSCOUT identifies Keymous + as major cyberthreat in North Africa countries and 21 different sectors, with Morocco and Sudan identified among the most affected.
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94 % of UK business leaders are confident in their cyber-response despite uptick in debilitating attacks
U
K business leaders are displaying high confidence in their cyber-readiness, despite a surge in sophisticated attacks targeting major brands.
According to new research from consultancy Elixirr, 94 % of UK executives believe their organisations can detect and respond to a data breach or cyberattack. However, the findings point to a clear disconnect between boardroom assurance and public trust, as consumers become more critical of how companies manage and communicate during crises.
Recent cyberattacks on M & S and Jaguar Land Rover have underlined how response speed and transparency shape consumer confidence. While most executives recognise cybersecurity and data protection as key trust challenges, many still fail to prioritise clear, proactive communication around resilience.
The survey found that science, technology and research leaders are the most attuned to the risks, with 43 % citing cybersecurity and 42 % data privacy as pressing trust issues. By contrast, 86 % of hospitality leaders do not view cybersecurity as a key concern, focusing instead on brand reputation and employee morale – a worrying oversight for a data-driven industry.
“ Board confidence matters, but consumer confidence must match this if companies hope to build trust,” said Joe Hubback, Partner and CISO at Elixirr, urging firms to close the trust gap through visible, evidencebased resilience.
NETSCOUT identifies Keymous + as major cyberthreat in North Africa countries and 21 different sectors, with Morocco and Sudan identified among the most affected.
From an industry perspective, government agencies, hospitality and tourism, transportation and logistics, financial services and telecommunications organisations face the highest risk.
Bryan Hamman, NETSCOUT’ s Regional Director for Africa, said:“ Keymous + is leveraging DDoS-for-hire services and compromised devices, making their attacks more accessible and harder to defend against.”
he latest global threat intelligence report issued by NETSCOUT, a leading provider of observability, AIOps,
T cybersecurity and distributed denial of service( DDoS) attack protection solutions, has spotlighted Keymous + as a significant cyberthreat actor targeting nations across North Africa and the Middle East.
The threat actor employs a variety of attack vectors, including reflection and amplification attacks using protocols such as chargen, Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol( CLDAP), Domain Name System( DNS), memcached, Network Time Protocol( NTP), NetBIOS, rpcbind, Simple Network Management Protocol( SNMP), L2TP and Web Services Dynamic Discovery( WS-DD), as well as direct floods over DNS query, User Datagram Protocol( UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol( TCP).
According to NETSCOUT’ s ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team( ASERT), the group has launched 249 DDoS attacks across 15
Each attack conducted by Keymous + draws on an average of more than 42,000 unique source Ips.
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