The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

With the attention given to the threats posed by ransomware, why do organizations still fall victim to these attacks? Max Henderson, the Manager of Incident Response at Pondurance joins us to talk about what companies get wrong in responding to ransomware and other threats. So what should companies worried about ransomware do?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In a year in which ransomware attacks seem to get worse by the day, companies have made surprising progress defending themselves against attacks. Ransomware protection spending (source: Cymulate). Where the greatest optimism comes in is in what tends to happen when a company is hit with ransomware, according to the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

“Prometheus” and “Grief” – a multi-billion dollar ransomware market obtained two new emerging players. Prometheus is a new emerging ransomware group extorting enterprises in various verticals across the globe. Thanos ransomware (a.k.a. Source: [link]. prometheushelp@airmail.cc

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. Recently organizations in healthcare, research, and government facilities have been hit by Coronavirus-themed attacks that deployed multiple malware families, including ransomware and information stealers (i.e.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: The economic impact of phishing, ransomware, business logic hacking, Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continues to be devastating. More good news: there’s a trend toward increasingly proficient MSSPs stepping forward to help SMBs, mid-market enterprises and large enterprises do this.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyberattacks are on the rise, with cyber criminal trends and techniques becoming increasingly sophisticated and creative. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 Ransomware. Ransomware is the fastest-growing trend. Ransomware attacks can also threaten to release sensitive information.

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Information Governance Perspectives

MAY 8, 2020

Hunter, Dr. Tao Jin, Dr. Patricia Franks, Rae Lynn Haliday, Cheryl Pederson, and Wendy McLain on the topic of Meeting Evolving Business Needs – A Conversation Between RIM Educators and Thought Leaders. But that’s not entirely the role of the Records and Information Governance professional, is it?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sector overview Most-breached sectors (by number of incidents) # Sector Incidents 1 Other 34 30% 2 Healthcare 31 27% 3 Education 16 14% 4 (tie) Media and telecoms 12 11% 4 (tie) Public and non-profit 12 11% 6 Legal 5 4% 7 Finance and insurance 4 4% Note: The percentages add up to 101% due to rounding. Where ‘up to’, etc.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2022

As the world is slowly returning to pre-pandemic conditions, the underlying trends that have always driven information security, such as new technologies, greater compliance mandates and more severe security incidents, continue to be significant change agents. Ransomware ranked second (53%) and phishing finished in the top three (40%).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As 2023 draws to an end and cybersecurity budgeting is nearly complete, it helps to consider the year’s events and try to predict next year’s trends. After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends.

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IT Governance

JULY 11, 2022

IT Governance discovered 237 security incidents between April and June 2022, which accounted for 99,019,967 breached records. We also place ransomware in its own category, due in part to the frequency of attacks and in order to differentiate it from intrusions that may be harder to detect, such as password breaches.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), says the agency is all about helping companies and local government to keep hackers at bay. Related Stories Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling Episode 227: What’s Fueling Cyber Attacks on Agriculture ?

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

IT Governance discovered 1,063 security incidents in 2022, which accounted for 480,014,323 breached records. We also give ransomware its own category, due in part to the frequency of attacks and to differentiate it from intrusions that may be harder to detect, such as password breaches. That represents an 14.8%

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eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2019

In Friday’s post about Norton Rose Fulbright’s 2019 Litigation Trends Annual Survey , one of the most notable trends was that 44 percent of corporate respondents identified Cybersecurity/data privacy as the most likely new source of dispute for their business on the horizon, which was more than four times the next likely sources.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Mitnik claimed that the government was less worried about the accuracy of the charges and more worried about making an example of Mitnik to discourage other hackers. government’s reaction to Mitnik’s activities lives on in the attitudes of many government, corporate, and even non-profit organizations today.

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Adapture

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This trend is accelerating. Organizations need to continually invest in cybersecurity education to ensure that employees are aware of the latest phishing scams. Ransomware Ransomware typically involves a hacker infiltrating a business’s network and locking a user’s computer, data, or system, and holding it ransom.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform. ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia. FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. NRC Health health care company hit with ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Other major flaws appeared in the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes, Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server, and Apache ActiveMQ — and the latter two have already been targeted in ransomware attacks. 3 to report that the vulnerability is being actively exploited, which Rapid7 said includes ransomware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

The move to remote work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic increased the workloads for skilled IT professionals, and combined with the rising rate of ransomware attacks , many security pros are suffering from burnout. Government Initiatives. Subsidize Education for Employees Who Want to Move to Cybersecurity.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ransomware is one of the fastest-growing and most destructive cyber threats today. Cybersecurity researchers largely agree that ransomware growth has been astronomical; the only question is by how much. Given how high profile ransomware attacks have become, you may be wondering if you, too, could become a target. Valuable Data.

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IT Governance

JULY 29, 2019

By implementing defences that tackle the trends rather than the specific weaknesses, you can mitigate the risk of any kind of attack. Two of the biggest threats organisations face are phishing and ransomware , both of which exploit human error. In this post, we outline five essential ways of keeping your organisation secure.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

April saw a ransomware gang bucking the much-repeated advice given by cyber security researchers that criminal hackers target vulnerabilities rather than specific organisations. By comparison, a report published last year found that US firms pay $6 million on average in ransomware demands. Source: Security Affairs.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 25, 2020

As jarring as this abrupt shift to remote work has been for countless companies, government agencies and educational institutions, it has conversely been a huge boon for cyber criminals. I had the chance to meet — remotely, of course — with Kevin Simzer, Trend Micro’s Chief Operating Officer, to discuss this.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

According to NYDFS, the department released this Framework now due to the increase in frequency and cost of ransomware attacks as well as the shift that many have made online due to COVID-19 — two trends that have resulted in a massive increase in cyber risk around the world, with associated increases in concrete instances of cybercrime.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Damian recently updated our Ransomware Staff Awareness E-learning Course – a 30-minute, non-technical course that’s suitable for all staff. Over Q4 2023, our research found that 25% of all incidents involved ransomware. There really are two key areas: What ransomware is, and the threat it poses.

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IT Governance

MAY 16, 2019

A similar trend is occurring in bank fraud. Ransomware is still among the biggest threats, accounting for 24% of the malware incidents analysed. There has been a noticeable shift towards financially motivated crime in the education sector, with such breaches accounting for 80% of all attacks.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 18, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 19 January 2018. It’s likely that others will follow, as they did following the WannaCry ransomware outbreak last year. Organizations must do better in educating teams on risk awareness. Here are this week’s stories.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

What Are the Cyber Security Trends Around the World? At Thales we wanted to investigate what the cybersecurity trends are around the world. Let’s have a look at the trends shaping the cybersecurity industry. Finally, a common trend witnessed in many countries is the threat these criminal activities posed to democracy itself.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

The report goes on to note: In addition to the massive Equifax breach that exposed personal information of 143 million individuals, other noted breaches last year included the education platform Edmodo (77 million records hacked); Verizon (14 million subscribers possibly hacked); and America’s JobLink (nearly 5 million records compromised).

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Here, Part 1 discusses the key DT business drivers, concepts, and technology trends, how they are transforming organizations and society, and how the trends are affecting business users and customers. Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So you’ve been hit with ransomware and, for whatever reason, you paid the bitcoin but now the decryptor doesn’t work. Vamosi: So you’re CISO at a major corporation and all of sudden there’s been a ransomware attack in your network, and it’s spreading throughout your infrastructure.

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IT Governance

APRIL 28, 2021

IT Governance discovered 351 security incidents in the first three months of 2021, which accounted for 3,222,491,299 breached records. There has also been an upward trend so far in 2021. IT Governance can help you navigate to cyber safety with our range of tools and resources. How security incidents are occurring. Download now.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Small to Medium Business are, today, the target of APTs and ransomware. MUSIC} VAMOSI: In EP 49, I talked with Huntress, a managed service provider that discovered the ransomware affecting customers of Keysea. And because they were plugged into those clients, they were able to limit the spread of the ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware. Unlike ransomware, it might be a criminal operation that does not involve the collection of a ransom. User education is one of the most powerful tools for preventing malicious mobile apps. Email is also usually how ransomware works. Ransomware. How to Defend Against Ransomware. Bots and botnets.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

Colonial Pipeline–sprawling 5,500 miles from Houston to New York City–halted its mainlines on Friday, May 7, when administrators detected advanced ransomware internally. Also Read: Over 75 Percent of Ransomware Comes from Russian Speakers . In the biggest cyberattack to date on critical infrastructure in the U.S.,

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

million records from World-Check, a screening database used to screen potential customers for links to illegal activity and government sanctions. Mobile Guardian, which is used to help parents manage their children’s device usage, was hacked on 19 April, according to the Singaporean Ministry of Education.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Network Segmentation: This is the process of partitioning your network into isolated segments, generally using firewalls and virtual LANs , in order to govern and protect traffic flow across public and private cloud environments. Unique Offering: Provides full coverage, including open source assets, filling a critical cybersecurity gap.

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