Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 5, 2022

Trends and Predictions for 2022 – More of the Same? However, that has not really been the case, and we are going to continue the trend towards decentralization and hybrid working. This trend results in overburdened and fatigued workers who are often filling in for coworkers. Wed, 01/05/2022 - 05:12.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

To accelerate the ransomware encryption process and make it harder to detect, cybercriminal groups have begun using a new technique: intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption allows the ransomware encryption malware to encrypt files partially or only encrypt parts of the files. Some are written on Go and can be customized.

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IT Governance

JUNE 30, 2022

Although Wiltshire Farm Foods has revealed few details about the incident, cyber security experts believe that it bears the hallmarks of ransomware. Ransomware is a type of cyber attack in which criminal hackers plant malicious code on the victim’s systems, which cripples services and encrypts files. Get started.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Ransomware is undoubtedly one of the most unnerving phenomena in the cyber threat landscape. Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch inch diskettes. inch diskettes. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013.

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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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

There are few guarantees in the IT industry, but one certainty is that as the world steps into 2022, ransomware will continue to be a primary cyberthreat. The dangers from ransomware have risen sharply since WannaCry and NotPetya hit the scene in 2017, and this year has been no different. Cryptocurrency Fuels Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

The Cuba Ransomware gang has partnered with the crooks behind the Hancitor malware in attacks aimed at corporate networks. Group-IB Threat Intelligence & Attribution team found that Hancitor is being actively used by the threat actors to deploy Cuba ransomware. Cuba ransomware has been active since at least January 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

The first signs of the ransomware attack at data storage vendor Spectra Logic were reports from a number of IT staffers about little things going wrong at the beginning of the day. Screens then started to display a ransom demand, which said files had been encrypted by the NetWalker ransomware virus. The ransom demand was $3.6

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that Venus ransomware attacks were targeting a number of U.S. “ Cl0p ” a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

The operators behind the Shade Ransomware (Troldesh) shut down their operations and released over 750,000 decryption keys. Good news for the victims of the infamous Shade Ransomware , the operators behind the threat have shut down their operations and released over 750,000 decryption keys. SecurityAffairs – Shade Ransomware, hacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

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. AgentTesla ). ” continues the analysis. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 30, 2020

Maryland is currently considering a bill to become only the third state after Michigan and Wyoming, to criminalize the possession and distribution of ransomware. Certainly a motivating factor may have occurred when hackers hit Baltimore, Maryland’s largest city, with a RobbinHood ransomware attack on May 7, 2019. So, what do you think?

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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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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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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The education sector has seen 10 new victims in the past nine days alone, underscoring a consistent trend throughout 2019.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2019

Experts at PaloAlto Networks spotted a new Shade ransomware campaigns targeting news countries, including in the U.S. Researchers observed a new wave of Shade ransomware attacks against targets in several countries, including the US and Japan. Moth of the victims belongs to high-tech, wholesale and education sectors.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

According to the Gartner Digital Markets 2023 Global Software Buying Trends report, “42% of buyers say security is the most important factor when planning investment in new software.” Bisaillon “Cyber crime is a people problem—and better people processes and education are the solution,” said Bisaillon.

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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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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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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. ON LATEST TRENDS – INCREASED DIVERSIFICATION AND DEMAND…. I think we’re seeing this trend for a lot of reasons.

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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. It is becoming a trend and a key method of extortion.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

The company received two vulnerability reports from the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro ) for high/critical severity security issues in PaperCut MF/NG. Trend Micro announced they will disclose further information (TBD) about the vulnerability on 10th May 2023. ” reads the advisory published by PaperCut.

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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. Bottom line: Prepare now based on risk.

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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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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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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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IT Governance

JULY 11, 2022

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. Part of the reason that these attacks account for such a high percentage of the total is the decrease in ransomware attacks.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 4, 2020

Here are some other notable study findings: About 36% of respondents reported their organization had a ransomware attack last year with only 20% feeling confident in their ability to deal with it. The post Two Out of Three Companies Haven’t Reviewed Their Breach Preparedness Plans: Cybersecurity Trends appeared first on CloudNine.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform. FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. Reading Municipal Light Department, an electric utility in Massachusetts, hit by ransomware. NRC Health health care company hit with ransomware.

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eDiscovery Daily

JUNE 23, 2019

The 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack was probably the clearest example of what can go wrong when patches aren’t applied; while a patch for the vulnerability exploited by the ransomware had existed for several months many organizations such as parts of the UK’s National Health Service had failed to use it.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

PhishMe’s online forum provides a series of scenarios, landing pages, attachments and educational pages. A continuous cyclic approach of assessment, education, reinforcement and measurement is used to evolve a program, that delivers targeted training at the moment of need. Related: Gamification training gains traction. PhishingBox.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. Meanwhile, we discovered 255 ransomware attacks during the year (24% of all publicly disclosed incidents). Keeping your organisation secure.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 9, 2023

A phishing attack is a fraudulent email, text or voice message designed to trick people into downloading malware (such as ransomware ), revealing sensitive information (such as usernames, passwords or credit card details) or sending money to the wrong people.

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eDiscovery Daily

MAY 12, 2019

As always, the report is chock full of graphics and statistics which makes it easier to read than the size of the report indicates and covers everything from social attacks to ransomware to denial of service to incident classification patterns and coverage of data breaches and other incidents in several industries.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Thus, many cyberattacks, such as ransomware , continue to occur. Mitnick understood where the greatest cybersecurity dangers were, and he used his platform at KnowBe4 to promote training all employees to be aware of attack vectors and to educate organizations worldwide. Most organizations don’t have the power of the U.S.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Related Stories Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling Episode 227: What’s Fueling Cyber Attacks on Agriculture ? October is the 18th annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month – a month dedicated to educating the public and the private sector about cyber risks. Read the whole entry. » CISA: A Different Kind of Agency.

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