Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

” Mandiant, which tack the toolkit as INCONTROLLER, also published a detailed analysis warning of its dangerous cyber attack capability. “INCONTROLLER represents an exceptionally rare and dangerous cyber attack capability.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

TG Soft ‘s CRAM researchers had the chance to test their Heuristic Behavioral technologies to combat even the variants of this family type of Ransomware attacks. Black attack analyzed by TG Soft ‘s CRAM researchers, showed that access by cyber criminals was via exposed RDP. Black The LockBit 3.0 Black The LockBit 3.0

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Reflecting on the Wannacry ransomware attack, which is the lesson learnt e why most organizations are still ignoring it. The spread of this ransomware was considered to be the worst cyber attack in terms of contamination rate and scope, putting public offices and companies (especially healthcare facilities) out of operation.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

If this is true, then it does not answer the question as to why many of the largest and best protected global corporations and Governments institutions worldwide have been victims of major Cyber-attacks despite deploying the most expensive defence solutions in the market. For more information on this breach, see Embraer Cyber Attack.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks in May and June 2017, respectively, were the most devastating in history. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors. CrySiS, also known as Dharma, has been around since 2016 and continues to be active at the time of this publication.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Information Technology research and advisory company, Gartner, presented its top predictions for the cybersecurity industry for 2017 earlier this year. As cyber attacks become increasingly complex and difficult to avoid, a people-centric security approach provides the best opportunity to avoid and recover quickly from attacks on data.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Notable Ransomware Attacks CryptoLocker ushered in the modern ransomware age in 2013, and in 2017, the devastating WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware attacks raised the threat’s profile significantly. One attack in particular thrust ransomware into the spotlight as never before, the May 2021 Colonial Pipeline attack.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 17, 2024

The 2021 cyber-attack on Colonial Pipeline springs to mind, which led to legal changes and served as a wake-up call for many in the industry regarding the importance of cybersecurity measures and the potential consequences of such breaches. Some businesses never fully recover.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A good example is the infamous WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017 that hit corporate networks running Microsoft Windows throughout the world as part of a larger global cyberattack. Incident response and a clean air-gapped backup copy of your data are critical cybersecurity tools these days. Put recovery strategies in place.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% of cyber attacks IBM handled.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The backup channel for sharing information is email. In December 2017, Group-IB published its first report on the group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5 Group-IB is one the world’s leading providers of solutions aimed at detection and prevention of cyber attacks, fraud exposure and protection of intellectual property on the Internet.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Very few weeks go by without news of another cyber attack or data breach and a quick scan of the BBC news website shows that in most months, there is at least one story that makes the national news headlines. The post Lessons from the cyber front line appeared first on IT Security Guru. SolarWinds.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Cyber attacks or data breaches can quickly make headlines, and the public’s perception of a bank can shift overnight. Strong cyber security measures are crucial for maintaining trust and ensuring customers feel safe conducting transactions and sharing sensitive information with their bank.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The FIFA World Cup 2022 has brought with it a spike in cyber attacks targeting football fans through fake streaming sites and lottery scams, leveraging the rush and excitement around these uncommon events to infect users with malware. Backup your documents and media files - this is extremely important with ransomware infections.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Although it made its debut in 2016, Petya ransomware gained worldwide recognition in 2017 when a new variant was introduced in the Ukraine that led to $10 billion in damages through a colossal cyber-attack. To do this, we recommend: Ensuring regular data backups and restore drills. Investing in robust security solutions.

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Spinone

JANUARY 22, 2020

WannaCry ransomware This ransomware first appeared in May 2017 and has left the major mark in the history of cyberattacks. Petya and NotPetya ransomware The Petya cyber attack happened in 2017 and was mostly targeted against Ukraine , but later got around as usual ransomware. WannaCry decryptor 2.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Back in 2017, a ransomware outbreak paralyzed several organizations in Russia and Ukraine, with cases also occurring in Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria and Japan. Bad Rabbit is understood to have hit media outlets in Russia, causing servers to crash during the cyber-attack. Perform regular backups. Here’s a hint: not much.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This decrease in demand-to-pay ratio is likely due to improved preparedness and resiliency on the part of policyholders and their backups, allowing for breach response professionals to handle ransomware situations more efficiently and get companies back online faster.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Some of the more notable cybersecurity breaches you may remember are Equifax back in 2017, Adobe in 2013, and Zynga (the company that makes Words with Friends) in 2019. The company should also perform frequent backups of key data and shut off old servers and virtual machines that aren’t being used anymore.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With many companies improving their incident response and ability to restore services through the use of backups, it is possible that the intentional breach of data is actually the more impactful side of a double extortion attack; according to research from 2022, the average cost of a data breach was USD 4.35

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

and up to $100m (due to the Russian NotPetya attacks in 2017) provoked insurers to tighten terminology on ‘state actor’ attacks to further limit their risk exposure, while simultaneously raising premiums. But the frequency and cost of cyber-attacks have risen enormously in the past five years.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

A recording of the CISA CALL WITH CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS ON POTENTIAL RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACKS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES has been shared on their YouTube page! was similarly discussed, for example by Symantec, in their report " Dragonfly: Western energy sector targeted by sophisticated attack group " in October 2017.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2024

Just like in 2017, when thousands of customers defected from small package delivery company TNT Express (now owned by FedEx) to DHL in the aftermath of the $10 billion NotPetya cyberattack, it's likely most of them will not return to Change.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

Ransomware is designed primarily for extorting money, but it can also be used for politically motivated attacks. The example – NotPetya cyberattack against Ukraine in 2017. Some of them don’t have a backup at all; others can back up data infrequently, like once a month or even less often.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Crawley: Pen testing is when you simulate cyber attacks, so you're not actually conducting cyber attacks because you have the consent of the owner of the network or the computer application that you're penetration testing, but within the rules that your client has given you. You are acting as your cyber attacker.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Crawley: Pen testing is when you simulate cyber attacks, so you're not actually conducting cyber attacks because you have the consent of the owner of the network or the computer application that you're penetration testing, but within the rules that your client has given you. You are acting as your cyber attacker.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017.

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