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Black Hat insights: Getting bombarded by multiple ransomware attacks has become commonplace

The Last Watchdog

This grim outlook is shared in a new white paper from Sophos. I had the chance to discuss these findings last week at Black Hat USA 2022, with John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos, a next-generation cybersecurity leader with a broad portfolio of managed services, software and hardware offerings.

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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

The findings come in a new paper released by researchers at Cambridge University’s Cybercrime Centre , which examined the quality and types of work needed to build, maintain and defend illicit enterprises that make up a large portion of the cybercrime-as-a-service market.

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Will Autonomous Security Kill CVEs?

ForAllSecure

Over time, vendors recognized the importance of cybersecurity and created their own database of vulnerabilities. It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well. MITRE’s CVE list has indeed become the standard.

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Will Autonomous Security Kill CVEs?

ForAllSecure

Over time, vendors recognized the importance of cybersecurity and created their own database of vulnerabilities. It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well. MITRE’s CVE list has indeed become the standard.

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WILL AUTONOMOUS SECURITY KILL CVES?

ForAllSecure

Over time, vendors recognized the importance of cybersecurity and created their own database of vulnerabilities. It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well. MITRE’s CVE list has indeed become the standard.