Webroot

MARCH 31, 2021

Are you taking the pledge this World Backup Day? Now in its tenth year, World Backup Day remains one of our favorite reminders of the risks of not backing up the data we hold dear. Numbers are great, and necessary for showing the scope of the problem, but I wanted to see how data loss—and backups—affect real people.

Backups 62

Backups Data preservation Ransomware Encryption 62

Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Here are some of the most recent statistics related to data breaches (according to IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2020). million, which is 1,5% lower than in 2019 The average cost of a breach for organizations with incident response teams and plans is $3.29 The average cost of a data breach is $3.86

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Data breaches Phishing Cyber threats 52

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

Computer Weekly said it had learnt that FatFace paid a £1.5m ($2 million US dollar) ransom to the Conti Ransomware gang , disclosing the gang gained access to FatFace network and their IT systems via a phishing email on 10th January 2021. conduct employee phishing tests. implement offline storage and tape-based backup.

Energy and Utilities 122

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Banking Hacking 122

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As stated in a recent Eset report , the Shade infection had an increase during October 2018, keeping a constant trend until the second half of December 2018, taking a break around Christmas, and then resuming in mid-January 2019 doubled in size (shown in Figure 1). Technical analysis. Ransomware Onion website.

Ransomware 76

Ransomware Encryption Malware Advertising 76

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

McAfee researchers addressed the shift in ransomware strategy this week in their McAfee Threats Report: June 2021. Likewise, circa 2019/2020, we saw the introduction of leak sites. According to reports, the group had also stolen about 100 gigabytes of data from Colonial servers before the onset of the malware attack.

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Ransomware Backups Encryption Malware 102