Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

Cyberattacks are not only a technological problem for companies, but they also represent a very real financial threat. According to the Ponemon Institute and IBM, the global average cost of a data breach is $4.24 domiciled insurers and alien surplus lines insurers writing business in the U.S., million and climbing.

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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

Welcome to our March 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified exactly 100 publicly disclosed incidents during the month, accounting for 41,970,182 breached records. The most concerning aspect of this breach is that Latitude Financial originally reported that only 300,000 people had been affected.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 30, 2020

We’re not even halfway through 2020, and already it’s been a record-breaking year for ransomware attacks. 1-99-employee companies are a target. We hear about the big ones. Millions of inboxes have been hit with a variant of Avaddon ransomware. It doesn’t matter how big your company is.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. While ransomware attacks have been around for decades, their frequency has exponentially increased in the last few years, let alone the past several months during the pandemic. The potency of a ransomware attack lies in its diabolical ingenuity.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cybercrime will go to the next level: Cyberattackers will implement improved skills, “shift left” attacks, and shifting strategies to adjust to evolving cyberdefense. Government actions will increase: Expect more government regulations, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and increased documentation required to protect CISOs.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2023

Small and medium-sized businesses are facing immense security challenges and these are the same as those of mid-size or larger enterprises. Related: Myths about safe browsing Clearly, SMBs need to be alert for cyberattacks, but they also need to stay focused on their business and not sacrifice productivity.

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