February 23, 2021
119k Threats Per Minute Detected in 2020
The number of newly detected ransomware families increased 34% last year. Researchers noted an increase in the popularity of “double extortion” ...
February 25, 2021
Three Ways MSPs Can Improve Supply Chain Security
Recently, we have heard some harrowing examples of how nation state adversaries and ransomware gangs have abused supply chain vulnerabilities ...
February 26, 2021
Pandemic Cyber Crime, By the Numbers
Ransomware attacks also surged by 800% amid the rapidly evolving global crisis, prompting INTERPOL to issue a warning to healthcare institutions ...
February 25, 2021
A new organization becomes a victim of ransomware every 10 seconds worldwide
Highlights of the Check Point Research 2021 Security Report include: Double-extortion ransomware attacks rise: in Q3 2020, nearly half of all ...
February 16, 2021
Gain Control of Enterprise's Great Energy Hog: The Data Center
But growing energy consumption by storage is also a concern. Estimates put the ... Tape media can be stored off-line, further reducing energy usage.
February 17, 2021
Ransomware? Let's Call It What It Really Is: Extortionware
Ransomware was a wide net, and encryption was an early part of the attack. With extortionware, the attacking crews have adopted advanced tactics or .....
February 18, 2021
Healthcare Carries a Large Target for Ransomware
An organization can have state of the art security technologies but can still fall victim to a ransomware attack. It may only take one person to click...
February 18, 2021
France to boost cyberdefense after hospital malware attacks
During ransomware attacks, cybercriminals infect computer networks with malware that scrambles data until victims pay a ransom. The hospital in ...
February 8, 2021
Ransomware Demands Spike 320%, Payments Rise
In fact, pandemic-themed phishing scams, a sustained onslaught of ransomware attacks and the rise of a remote global workforce all colluded to make .....
February 2, 2021
Ransomware gangs made at least $350 million in 2020
The figure was compiled by tracking transactions to blockchain addresses linked to ransomware attacks. Although Chainalysis possesses one of the ...
February 4, 2021
Blockchain transactions confirm murky and interconnected ransomware scene
Criminal gangs often use multiple ransomware strains and jump ship from one RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) to another, seeking better deals.
February 5, 2021
How data storage technology can overcome human vulnerabilities that open the door to ransomware
Ransomware attacks dominated the cyber security landscape in 2020 and will remain a top threat in 2021, posing major challenges for both public ...
February 1, 2021
UK Research and Innovation suffers ransomware attack
Ransomware is a type of malware that is now often a culprit in attacks against the enterprise. Once ransomware has landed on a compromised system, it...
January 23, 2021
Keizer was one of many cyber attack victims in 2020
According to a report on the state of ransomware in the United States, Keizer was one of 113 federal state and municipal governments and agencies ...
January 23, 2021
Hospital in Belgium Forced to Redirect Patients Due to Cyberattack
The actors haven't made any ransomware demands yet, so this may be another case of erroneous targeting. Center Hospitalier de Wallonie Picarde ...
January 23, 2021
Maximum number of corporations assume they'll be hit by a security attack this year
Peeking at the kinds of dangers CISOs and CSO watch on the frontier, ransomware is considered to be the hugest reason for interest, with 46% of ...
January 24, 2021
Scottish Agency Network Remains Inaccessible Weeks After Ransomware Attack
Conti, a notable ransomware gang, published thousands of government files belonging to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) after ...
January 24, 2021
2020 Data Breaches Point to Cybersecurity Trends for 2021
Other trends included a doubling of ransomware attacks from 2019 to 2020, and data breach severity rising. Here are some of the highlights from the .....
January 22, 2021
Why Attacks Still Get Through, Despite Billions Spent On Security
Ransomware can be spread through phishing emails with malicious attachments or by getting users to unknowingly download their malicious software ...
January 22, 2021
Security Monitoring: Four Policies MSPs Should Review
In these attacks, hackers use MSP credentials to access and spread ransomware to their clients, so offering the ability to monitor for and detect cryp...
January 22, 2021
New Cyber-attack Advice for European Hospitals
"The fact that a ransomware attack could have taken place is usually a sign of one or more vulnerabilities in the [data] controller's system,&quo...
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,...
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