Cytelligence

JANUARY 27, 2020

Ransomware is becoming an epidemic in the cybersecurity world, with new strains being created continuously by criminals to extort money out of unsuspecting users. What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a devastating attack on an organization’s or individual’s digital assets. Damages from ransomware in 2019 rose to over $11.5

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Ransomware is undoubtedly one of the most unnerving phenomena in the cyber threat landscape. Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch inch diskettes. inch diskettes.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2021

Ransomware continues to plague companies as the remote and hybrid workforce models leave new attack vectors. Research notes a 715% year-over-year increase in ransomware during 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware types.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

The threat landscape for businesses today is filled with many different security threats and attack vectors used by hackers and other malicious individuals. On the world scene, 2020 has already been a challenging year for businesses across the board with COVID-19. What Is a Cyber Attack? What Do Hackers Want?

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 2, 2022

ransomware to conduct the cyber-attack, the hackers threaten to expose stolen files unless the company pays a ransom. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time the company has experienced such an attack. The ransomware gang demanded over $34 million in bitcoin to be paid as ransom. using the LockBit 2.0

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Pain of Double Extortion Ransomware divya Thu, 02/16/2023 - 06:10 Ransomware perpetrators are adopting more sophisticated attack techniques with much success. Attackers are increasingly threatening double and triple extortion in addition to ransom demands, putting more pressure on victims to comply.

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Spinone

JANUARY 24, 2021

So, should you backup your Office 365 data? Such risks are one of the key concerns expressed by our customers when considering our backup. For example, the Microsoft outages in September and October 2020 heavily affected many European regions by causing massive downtime for companies. This article was updated in January 2021.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2020

A ransomware attack that targeted the offices of the City of Knoxville, Tennessee, forced to shut down its entire computer network. The city of Knoxville, Tennessee, has shut down its computer network following a ransomware attack. Cyber attacks can happen to anyone or any government no matter how good the defense is.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In some sense, 2020 was special—the coronavirus pandemic and the global shift to remote working became significant factors affecting the cybersecurity landscape. Cybersecurity Statistics 2020 By the end of the year, worldwide spending on cybersecurity is going to reach $123 billion. How exactly? Let’s find out.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

2020 has been a year of great change and constant adaptation to new circumstances. Trends of cyber insurance claims for 2020. Coalition, a cyber insurance company, recently released a report detailing the categories of cyber attacks as well as the cause behind the attacks for the first half of 2020.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2020

US Government fears a new wave of cyber attacks from Iran as retaliation for the airstrike that killed Maj. Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of a potential new wave of cyber attacks carried out by Iran-linked hacker groups targeting U.S. Christopher C. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

The City of Torrance of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, California, is the last victim of the DoppelPaymer Ransomware, hackers also stole its data. On Sunday, the computer systems in the city of Torrance suffered a cyber attack that interrupted access to email accounts and server functions. million ransom. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. That’s because gaining the initial foothold is rarely the difficult part of the attack.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ransomware is one of the fastest-growing and most destructive cyber threats today. Cybersecurity researchers largely agree that ransomware growth has been astronomical; the only question is by how much. Given how high profile ransomware attacks have become, you may be wondering if you, too, could become a target.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2020

First: The incident was a ransomware attack. Second: Garmin seems to have an allergy to the word "ransomware.". Good news for Garmin users: devices are getting their functionality back, and hopefully, your data was not taken during the attack. The company still refuses to say, or type, the word “ransomware.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

CD PROJEKT RED, the game developer behind Cyberpunk 2077, announced earlier on Twitter that it has fallen victim to a targeted ransomware attack. The company says it has backups for the affected systems and does not intend to pay the ransom. Although some devices in our network have been encrypted, our backups remain intact.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. In this post we’ll look at the clues left behind by “ Babam ,” the handle chosen by a cybercriminal who has sold such access to ransomware groups on many occasions over the past few years.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Bookstore giant Barnes & Noble has disclosed a cyber attack and that the threat actors have exposed the customers’ data. A series of messages published on Barnes & Noble’s Nook social media accounts state that it had suffered a system failure and is working to restore operations by restoring their server backups.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Symantec researchers are warning that a BlackByte ransomware affiliate has begun using a custom data exfiltration tool, Infostealer.Exbyte, to steal data from victims’ networks as part of their attacks. See also: How to Recover From a Ransomware Attack. Exfiltration to Replace Ransomware Encryption?

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Healthcare ransomware is increasing. The sector has always been a lucrative target for malicious actors, but the pandemic emergency has been a great vehicle for adversaries to launch an increasing number of ransomware attacks against hospitals. By September 2020, bad actors compromised over 9.5 What is the problem?

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

How CIOs Can Protect Data Against Ransomware Attacks in 2022. Here are 4 ways to protect your organization’s most precious asset—data—against the ransomware pandemic. Ransomware has become one of the most dangerous and high-profile problems facing CIOs and CISOs worldwide. Wed, 10/27/2021 - 08:34. Hims Pawar.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A ransomware attack on a supply chain may seem impersonal, but what if an attack affected your ability to literally put food on the table? Food and agriculture is one of many critical infrastructure sectors that is increasingly being targeted with ransomware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A lawsuit working its way through the courts could have a lot to say about the liabilities facing organizations that have been hit by ransomware attacks – and could have implications for cybersecurity preparation and regulation in general. Hospital’s Operations Hit by Ransomware. ” Cyber Insurance No Longer Reliable.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

The rise of the cyber insurance has largely failed to promote better cybersecurity practices among the industries they cover, according to a new report released Monday from the British security think tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Nurse and James Sullivan. One example of a favorable impact cited by the authors: claims by U.S.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Ransomware tactics have continued to evolve over the years, and remain a prominent threat to both SMBs and larger organisations. The same research found that demands by cyber attackers are also increasing to as much as £31 million, which for businesses of any size, is detrimental for survival.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2023

EPA claims are also confirmed by private agencies like Fitch Ratings which published an alert in April 2021 to warn of the “material risk” to water and sewer utilities caused by cyber attacks that could also impact their ability to repay debt. The ransomware affected the victim’s SCADA system and backup systems.

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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. 30 th November 2020 – Embrear ( www.embrear.com ).

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The growth in ransomware attacks is to blame for the rapid premium hike. 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.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

President and Chief Executive Officer, Colonial Pipeline testifies during a hearing on the Hill to examine threats to critical infrastructure, focusing on the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack. “It’s the only way we’re going to learn that these attacks continue to change, [that] there’s variants of these attacks.

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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. implement offline storage and tape-based backup. implement offline storage and tape-based backup.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Cyber Predictions for the C-Suite t o Keep Top of Mind Next Year . – Robert Herjavec . 16, 2020 . As we close out 2020, it’s no secret that this year has had more than its fair share of challenges. Sophisticated Ransomware . Ransomware, the fastest-growing type of cybercrime, will claim a new victim?

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 2, 2020

What happened in this K12 ransomware attack. What happened in this ransomware attack? The cybercriminals who deployed the ransomware threatened to publish that confidential data about students and teachers. The only way around the publishing of the data is to pay the attackers. "We How old are they?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 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. Much like other fields of tech, cyber crime is also constantly evolving.

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Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

Cyber-attacks are on the rise and are becoming more potent with each day. Whether you use your computer for personal or professional purposes, cyber-attacks are an imminent threat to your privacy and personal or professional information. Backup and Recovery Tools. Identity Theft Protection Tools.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

While the Coronavirus outbreak is threatening the world, the INTERPOL warns that crooks are increasingly targeting hospitals with ransomware. The INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organisation) is warning of ransomware attacks against hospitals despite the currently ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. reported BleepingComputer.

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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. In December 2019, the Travelex foreign exchange company was targeted by the REvil ransomware group. SolarWinds.

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