January 14, 2021
New Jersey City Utility Struggling With Costly Cyberattack
A ransomware attack against the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority Sept. 30 forced the public utility to spend roughly $500,000 after access to...
January 15, 2021
Ransomware has MSPs in its sights
A top attack method is ransomware. Cyber criminals frequently use this technique to lock systems and exfiltrate data. In the case of an MSP, it starts...
January 11, 2021
Top Five Common CISO Myths Debunked
The latest strains of ransomware are also evasive, and they stay in victims' machines for months, scouting for crown jewels like intellectual property...
January 12, 2021
Intel adds hardware-based ransomware detection to 11th gen CPUs
Intel TDT uses hardware telemetry to detect fileless malware, cryptomining, polymorphic malware, and ransomware in real-time based on CPU metrics ...
January 12, 2021
AKVA targeted by ransomware hackers
It has been blocked and so-called ransomware virus has now been introduced. “We have operations in ten countries, and various services. Some of the .....
January 8, 2021
2020 Was a Bad Year for Ransomware. 2021 Will Be Worse.
Ransomware—a form of malware that prevents a computer system from being used or its data from being retrieved, but with an offer to restore access ...
January 10, 2021
Seven cybersecurity predictions for 2021
In 2020 researchers noted a surge in ransomware attacks, phishing, business email takeovers, spyware, and cryptocurrency theft. Not much has ...
January 10, 2021
Ransomware gang Ryuk thought to have pulled in US$150 million
Digital wallets bursting with ransom payments. One ransomware gang, Ryuk, is estimated to have netted over US$150 million (A$194 million) through its...
January 11, 2021
Ransomware the 'most prominent issue' for cyber insurers
According to Coalition's 'H1 2020 Cyber Claims Report,' there was a dramatic increase in the severity of ransomware attacks in the first half of 2020,...
December 28, 2020
COVID-19 impact on data backup will continue in 2021
Tape is the only storage medium for digital data that doesn't require power when it's not active and can maintain the data's integrity for up to 30 ye...
December 24, 2020
New Cyber Attack Group Cripples Another Major Logistics Player
A ransomware demand from a cyber-hacking group calling itself Hades has decimated the services of Tennessee headquartered Forward Air, ...
December 24, 2020
What the Worst Security Threats of the Year Tell Us About 2021
Across 2020, we saw rises in cybercrime threats and dollars lost to hacks, leaks, and ransomware attacks. The numbers are still trickling in, but some...
December 24, 2020
Prevent Ransomware From Taking the Podium With Layered Security
Ransomware is the most notable, and it's evolving rapidly to take advantage of the new fluid working landscape. Cyber-criminals are no longer throwing...
December 9, 2020
How Backup can be an Effective Defense Against Ransomware
But ransomware also spreads through direct server attacks, email malware attachments, and cloud resources. Review and Update Backup Policies. The ...
December 9, 2020
US cybersecurity firm FireEye says it was hacked by foreign government
FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the US, said on Tuesday that foreign government hackers with “world-class capabilities” broke i...
November 30, 2020
Managing unstructured data to boost performance, lower costs
Data is moved, archived or deleted from costly primary storage to more cost-effective secondary, cloud or tape storage. The data management ...
December 7, 2020
Tale of the Tape 2020 is out now, and guess what – the future is rosy
To summarise, the industry body reckons magnetic tape storage has a good future. It is great for archive data, beating disk and public cloud, But dig...
December 7, 2020
Ransomware attacks target backup systems, compromising the company 'insurance policy'
... for three copies of data (production data and two backup copies) on two different backup media, such as disk and tape, with one copy stored off-si...
November 27, 2020
The Emerging Ransomware-As-A-Service Economy
The more ransomware attacks that occur, the more they succeed, the more the victims pay, other ransomware operators are like, 'Oh yeah, I can do that...
November 29, 2020
Manchester United Risk A £15million Fine Over Ransom Demand
“Facilitating a ransomware payment that is demanded as a result of malicious cyber activities may enable criminals and adversaries with a sanctions .....
November 30, 2020
Data Backup Practices Can Thwart Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware, often spread through phishing emails (as was the case for Spectra Logic), that once opened, encrypts an ...
November 24, 2020
Blackbaud Faces Another Lawsuit, as More Healthcare Victims Reported
Earlier this year, Blackbaud was hit with a ransomware attack on its self-hosted environment, which compromised some of its client data. The incident...
November 25, 2020
FBI: Ragnar Locker Ransomware Attacks Increase With Data Theft Risk
The group became well known following a massive ransomware attack on a corporate enterprise. Hackers encrypted the network and asked for a $11 ...
November 26, 2020
Ransomware Attack Will Costs French IT Services $60 Million
On Oct. 21, Sopra Steria acknowledged it had detected an attack using a previously unknown version of the Ryuk ransomware. The company noted at ...
November 27, 2020
Cybersecurity Predictions for 2021: Robot Overlords No, Connected Car Hacks Yes
Ransomware Will Evolve. Cyberattacks have matured over the years, with different trends coming and going. Going into 2021, ransomware will almost ...
November 16, 2020
SSL-Based Cyberattacks Increase By 260%; Healthcare Most Targeted
And healthcare was the most targeted sector. healthcare SSL encryption cybercriminals threat actors hidden threats endpoint protection ransomware. By...
November 18, 2020
Sophos identifies top three security trends for 2021
Ransomware operators will also focus on secondary extortion, where attackers not only focus on data encryption, but also steal and threaten to publish...
November 22, 2020
Business interruption drives 60% of cyber losses: Allianz - Business Insurance
Business interruption losses accounted for 60% of cyber insurance claims in the past five years, according to a report published Thursday by Allianz...
November 22, 2020
CrowdStrike: Ransomware hit 56% of organizations in last year
A new CrowdStrike survey determined that more than half of the 2,200 respondents suffered ransomware attacks over the last 12 months. Released Tuesday...
November 21, 2020
Capcom Ransomware Attack Update: Vendors Confirmed Compromise Of Data
Earlier this month, the Japanese gaming firm Capcom suffered a cybersecurity incident reports hinted towards a ransomware attack. After two weeks ...
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