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. We are coordinating with law enforcement.”.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Researchers at MDSsec published technical details of the vulnerability along with a video that shows the exploit they have developed, but they decided to not release it to avoid miscreants use it in the wild. The vulnerability is often exploited by ransomware operators, cybercriminals and nation state actors in their attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. io ), to share videos of their claimed exploits, and for amplifying and retweeting posts from other accounts under their control.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 21, 2022

Yet, we often see that generic installations will not send an alert on these events. The rise of ransomware and data wiper attacks makes data backups more important than ever. See the Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection. Data Backup Access and Changes. Significant Data Changes. Gaps in Attack Monitoring.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. io ), to share videos of their claimed exploits, and for amplifying and retweeting posts from other accounts under their control.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In cybersecurity, steganography mainly consists of hiding malicious payloads or secret information inside seemingly harmless files such as images, PDFs, audios, videos, and many other document types. Also read: How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks: 20 Best Practices for 2022. How to Protect Against Steganographic Documents.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2021

Additionally, the Cloud service provider itself may be vulnerable to attacks – as we saw recently with the ransomware attack on Kaseya. With the right protocols in place, you can avoid liability in the event of a data breach, but unfortunately, it’s all but impossible to eradicate the risk of a security incident occurring.

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IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

It found that in the 90 days leading up to last year’s sale, 1,633 fake sites targeting the event were detected. Email phishing accounts for 90% of ransomware attacks. It was cited in 60% of responses, ahead of compromised credentials (52%), the threat of ransomware (47%) or malware (29%), and financial losses (18%).

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Information Governance Perspectives

JULY 23, 2020

It’s an honor to be with you all and kick off today’s event with a timely discussion about the collaborative technology that is really dominating the way we all have begun to work and collaborate. We know for example that Ransomware pirates are now even targeting law firms just as much as other sectors such as healthcare.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The first phishing campaigns have already been sent and more will be coming that try to trick you into clicking on a variety of links about blood drives, charitable donations, or "exclusive" videos. For KnowBe4 customers, we have a few templates with this topic in the Current Events.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Tape vendors have been promoting themselves as a solution to the ransomware problem because of their ability to provide air-gapped data backup, but trying to recover terabytes of data from a tape drive can be a little like, well, running into red tape. Q: If a ransomware attack is in your system(s), can the attack get to all your data?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

IBM, Google and Microsoft have been among the big names developing and promoting homomorphic technology, and one startup is even pushing data in use encryption as a defense against data exfiltration common in ransomware attacks. Automates policy enforcement with remediation of security events, without the burden of encryption key management.

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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. 2023 cybersecurity issues will continue: Weak IT fundamentals, poor cybersecurity awareness, and ransomware will still cause problems and make headlines.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

They planned a party, coordinated the event, and attended the party within the sim. link] [Head Scratcher] More Companies With Cyber Insurance Are Hit by Ransomware Than Those Without? This is concerning, as 95% of organizations hit by ransomware said their data was, in fact, encrypted.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

With lateral movement across a victim’s IT infrastructure, threat actors can escalate privileges, spread malware , extract data , and disrupt IT services as with ransomware attacks. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP. As long as actors go undetected, the timing of attacks is on the perpetrator’s terms.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

LockBit leaks data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service Italy’s Data Protection Authority temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin Cyber Police of Ukraine (..)

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware. These adware strains often present themselves as a video, banner, full screen, or otherwise pop-up nuisance. Unlike ransomware, it might be a criminal operation that does not involve the collection of a ransom. Email is also usually how ransomware works. Ransomware. Jump ahead: Adware. Bots and botnets.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This part will also discuss managing CS risks such as ransomware, privacy, change management, and user adoption. The cloud enabled computing model allows the organization to scale up during peak periods such as new product launches and holiday shopping, and then scale down after the event. Introduction. Intelligent Capture.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

So every six months, we're doing an event, and we're bringing the sock and so it started off with just the one in us and then it was the US with a handover to the Europe and then a handover to say Asia Pacific and we're doing a ship handovers between sock two because the threat just doesn't stop after three hours. Here's how we got around it.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Slightly over one year ago, several major distributed denial-of-service (“DDoS”) attacks took place, including a major event affecting the domain name service provider Dyn , which caused outages and slowness for a number of popular sites, including Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitter.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Other times, the traffic itself may not be recognized as malicious, but monitoring by a security incident and event management (SIEM system), security operations center (SOC), or similar monitoring solution may detect unusual connections. More sophisticated NAC solutions will enable risk assessments, onboarding processes, and event reporting.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Since then Hash started a reverse engineering wiki site called Recessim and created dozens of YouTube videos in a channel of that same name to chronicle his adventures. Vamosi: I first became aware of hash after the Texas freeze, in particular hash and published a video on YouTube showing him driving around the streets of Dallas.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

However, DDoS attackers sometimes even target the specific computers (or routers) of unwary people – often to harass video gamers, for example. Steps to take in the event of a DDoS. The earlier a team can detect an event in progress, the faster the attack can be resolved. Hosting service. Incident response. DDoS vendors.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

These are often mainstream news events and what reporters often want to impart to people is along the lines of "Here's what you should do if you've been impacted", which often boils down to checking HIBP. How does the little site with the weird name end up in the press?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Vamosi: WannaCry and NotPetya were ransomware campaigns in 2017. Crawley: Pretty much every major cybersecurity event has a CTF with it. Very often, Bobby obviously these days are CTF, we're all going to be doing it from home.But there's usually a chat application, there might be video meetings with the people in the competition.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Vamosi: WannaCry and NotPetya were ransomware campaigns in 2017. Crawley: Pretty much every major cybersecurity event has a CTF with it. Very often, Bobby obviously these days are CTF, we're all going to be doing it from home.But there's usually a chat application, there might be video meetings with the people in the competition.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

Robert Leale, the driving force behind the Car Hacking village at DEF CON, joins The Hacker Mind to talk about CANBus basics, and whether we’ll see cars subjected to ransomware attacks. He also shares some tools, books, and website resources that you can use to get started hacking cars yourself.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

The company’s FortiOS operating system provides a view of devices, traffic, applications and events throughout the network, offering visibility beyond Layer 3 and Layer 4 port and protocol matching. Its tools can granularly control video content to achieve stronger regulatory compliance using intelligence from FortiGuard Labs.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This part also discusses managing CS risks such as ransomware, privacy, change management, and user adoption. Latson 2014) Unfortunately, the events unfolded almost exactly like the scenario in Situation Number 21. RaaS is a new business model for ransomware developers. Introduction. Therefore, the risk did not seem to matter.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Secure web gateway (SWG) solutions help keep enterprise networks from falling victim to ransomware , malware , and other threats carried by internet traffic and malicious websites. Log web activity in forensic detail and publish it to security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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CGI

JANUARY 7, 2016

Or it could be using ransomware, encrypting the user’s computer data files so that they become unusable unless they hand over payment in return for unlocking the data. View our video to learn more about how individuals can be targeted by such attacks. These are just two types of attacks that are seen every day by security specialists.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

State actors actively attack Ivanti, Ubiquity, and Microsoft’s Windows AppLocker, and ransomware attackers probe for unpatched ScreenConnect servers in this week’s vulnerability recap. February 27, 2024 Ransomware Gangs Target Unpatched ScreenConnect Servers Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass and path traversal.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 21, 2023

We have simulated phishing attack templates in your Current Events section with SVB-themes ready-made for you to send to your users. This week, we sent out a marketing email to many of our existing customers about our forthcoming, annual, very popular KB4-CON event. Cyberwire Pro has a good summary. link] Train users about the risks.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

I had tweeted this video, it's pinned on our Twitter account hack, not crime. And it's, no it's this short video. They've been showing up at conferences, and in some infosec videos. Have you done any events? And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. They're well designed. Have you sponsored anything?

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

The steady nature of ransomware attacks is a reminder that no company is immune. We can't (yet) stop ransomware. What we can do is limit the effectiveness and frequency of ransomware by increasing basic cyber awareness. The former,zip, is ubiquitous for data compression, while.mov is a video format developed by Apple.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Between high-profile ransomware attacks and mergers, it is a time of high stakes and great change for the industry. But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. Security information and event management (SIEM). Learn more about Microsoft.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For that, however, you just might want to view the video , embedded above. —- John Battelle Vint, thank you so much for being here. Now, that might imply as I think you said, the party offering those services should be ready to assume some liability in the event that the high risk thing causes harm.

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