February 17, 2020
Why Threat Actors Are Increasingly Conducting Cyberattacks on Local Government
Cyberattacks on local government in the U.S. have increased dramatically over the last several years. In 2019 alone, ransomware affected more than ...
February 17, 2020
CISO Stress Increasing with Cybersecurity Threats
Nearly every week, a massive data breach, ransomware attack or some other type of security failure grabs headlines across the internet and creates ...
February 14, 2020
Report Reveals Worst State for Healthcare Data Breaches in 2019
Report Reveals Worst State for Healthcare Data Breaches in 2019 A report into the spate of data breaches that ripped through America's healthcare indu...
February 15, 2020
Ransomware costs Canadian companies as much as $2.3 billion
TORONTO -- Ransomware attacks, where a virus infects a computer or network and holds a user or organization's data “hostage” until a ransom is ...
February 14, 2020
Patients Sue NJ Hospital Chain Over 2019 Ransomware Attack
10 complaint, named plaintiffs David Aranowitz and Roxane Campagna claim that the ransomware attack disrupted their medical services for days ...
February 14, 2020
What hospital CIOs are doing differently in 2020 to combat cyberattacks — it may not be tech related
Cyberattacks in the form of ransomware, malware, phishing emails and other nefarious hacks can result in patient record exposure, locked patient ...
February 14, 2020
Ransomware Attacks Grow, Crippling Cities and Businesses
SAN FRANCISCO — New Orleans’s city government crippled. A maritime cargo facility temporarily closed. Hospitals forced to turn away patients. Small bu...
February 10, 2020
Docker Registry Snafus Expose Firms to Cloud Compromise
Docker Registry Snafus Expose Firms to Cloud CompromiseSecurity experts are warning that widespread Docker registry misconfigurations could be exposin...
February 11, 2020
Is AI cybersecurity’s salvation or its greatest threat?
AI for cybersecurity is helping defend against a rising tide of attacks. But some fear unintended consequences when bad actors seize the same tools.Re...
February 12, 2020
Emotet Malware Now Hacks Nearby Wi-Fi Networks to Infect New Victims
Emotet, the notorious trojan behind a number of botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, has found a new attack vector: using already infe...
February 13, 2020
Puerto Rico Government Loses $2.6m in Phishing Scam
Puerto Rico Government Loses $2.6m in Phishing ScamA Puerto Rican government agency unintentionally gave cyber-criminals $2.6m after being taken in by...
February 11, 2020
REvil the Travelex hackers now hiring. Salary competitive, experience essential
The gang, who call themselves the REvil Ransomware Team but are also known as Sodinokibi, have been inviting applications from “serious and ...
February 13, 2020
Ransomware attacks spike, cost healthcare orgs millions
There have been 172 ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations since 2016 costing the U.S. health system more than $157 million, according ...
February 13, 2020
The FBI Issues A Powerful $3.5 Billion Cybercrime Warning
Then there is ransomware. The FBI has been warning about the "high impact" threat that ransomware poses to businesses and organizations for...
February 11, 2020
How Big Tech Brands Make Businesses An Even Bigger Phishing Target
New data was released this week with an urgent, albeit not necessarily unexpected, message: ransomware and other phishing attacks continue to ...
February 11, 2020
Hospitals, clinics most likely to be hit with ransomware attack
Over the past four years, nearly 1,500 healthcare companies have been hit with ransomware attacks, according to a study released Tuesday by ...
February 11, 2020
How AI is fighting, and could enable, ransomware attacks on cities
Ransomware is malicious software that can encrypt or control computer systems. Criminals who launch these attacks can then refuse to return access ...
February 11, 2020
Why Ransomware Will Soon Target the Cloud
As businesses' daily operations become more dependent on cloud services, ransomware authors will follow to maximize profits. The good news: ...
February 10, 2020
Ransomware Attacks Are Causing Cyber Insurance Rates to Go Through the Roof; Premiums up ...
After a brief lull, ransomware attacks have roared back as a major and persistent security problem in the past year. These attacks have become so ...
February 10, 2020
How Cybercriminals Recruit and Look for Skilled Developers
The contest even had a sponsor: The Sodinokibi (also known as REvil) ransomware gang, which currently produces one of the most widespread and ...
February 10, 2020
Defending Local Government Agencies From Rising Threat Of Ransomware
Over the past year, the 'Ryuk' strain of ransomware has caused widespread havoc across state lines. Last June, the city council of Riviera Beach, ...
February 10, 2020
Cybercriminals using coronavirus-themed emails to deliver malware: report
AZORult has been around since at least 2016 and can be used to install ransomware, which is designed to lock legitimate users out of their computer .....
February 9, 2020
Why is the healthcare industry still so bad at cybersecurity?
All systems are down due to ransomware, so the physician working through the scenario can't access electronic health records or use any of the ...
February 10, 2020
Cybercriminals are co-opting online storage platforms
The campaign delivers a collection of malware to vulnerable devices that can steal data, mine for Monero cryptocurrency, and deliver ransomware to ...
February 7, 2020
The University of Maastricht Paid $294k to Ransomware Actors
The Maastricht University has announced that they were coerced to pay 30 Bitcoin to ransomware actors who had locked the institution's computer ...
February 8, 2020
A ransomware has been discovered that disables your antivirus
Research by a security company named Sophos revealed that a new “ransomware” software can occupy Windows systems. The software manages to ...
February 7, 2020
Windows trust in abandoned code lets ransomware burrow deep into targeted machines
Attackers behind one of the world's more destructive pieces of ransomware have found a new way to defeat defenses that might otherwise prevent the ...
February 6, 2020
90% of UK Data Breaches Due to Human Error in 2019
90% of UK Data Breaches Due to Human Error in 2019Human error caused 90% of cyber data breaches in 2019, according to a CybSafe analysis of data from...
February 6, 2020
Cybersecurity Experts Warn of New 'Hardened' ICS-Specific Ransomware Variant
A primitive but unique ransomware variant that emerged in mid-December can forcibly stop a number of processes, including multiple items related to .....
February 6, 2020
Bitcoin Ransom of $220K Paid by University
The University of Maastricht has paid a Bitcoin ransom of US$220,000 to the hackers that inflicted a ransomware attack on the university.
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