Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Experts warn of an alarming rise in ransomware operations targeting the energy sector, including nuclear facilities and related research entities. Over the last year, ransomware attackers have targeted energy installations in North America, Asia, and the European Union. Resecurity, Inc.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Check for leftover artifacts of the threat actors and make sure to remove any malicious files from your network. DarkSide Ransomware Campaign. The DarkSide ransomware group provided Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) to other threat actors. Let's look at DarkSide ransomware attacks in the Picus Threat Library.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Every 11 seconds, a company falls victim to a ransomware attack. HIPAA privacy violations per day in 2020. The cost of cyber attacks globally in 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, is expected to cost $20 billion. Compromised protected personal data resulted in 1.8

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Since 2007 the InfoSec industry has been talking about TheBigOne™—the event that would change cyber threats from annoyances to existential concerns. They called it Cyber Pearl Harbor. That moment hasn’t happened (yet), but I think we’ve become the frog in the boiling cyber-water. It just looks different.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The survey found that in 2020, the most common incidents that healthcare institutions experienced in the cloud were phishing (reported by 44% of organizations), ransomware (39%) and data theft by insiders (35%). As a result, new avenues for cyber threats opened up. For more information, visit www.netwrix.com.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 21, 2022

The Ongoing Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure. With that in mind, Thales has launched the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report Critical Infrastructure Edition, which includes responses from 300 security leaders and practitioners within critical infrastructure organizations. The Threat of Ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2024

Ransomware attacks have become a significant threat to organizations of all kinds worldwide, with attackers encrypting data and demanding payment for its release. In this regard, many have touted cyber insurance as the knight in shining armor, the end all-be all in terms of mitigating criminals' assaults on your network.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 19, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is out with its annual Internet Crime Report, revealing that Business Email Compromise (BEC) remains a lucrative affair for cyber crooks – 62 times more lucrative than ransomware. On the ransomware front, the IC3 received 2,474 complaints with adjusted losses of over $29.1

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 27, 2021

First is the news related to a ransomware attack on a Candy maker that trade experts say could lead to chocolate scarcity when it is most needed by/for kids. ENISA says that between the periods of April 2020 to July 2021, many of the government agencies, along with some companies, were targeted with ransomware attacks by state funded actors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 18, 2021

SonicWall Cyber Threat report has confirmed that the year 2021 witnessed a record number of ransomware attacks in just 6 months, taking the number to 304.3 million; double than what was observed in the first six months of 2020. million ransomware attacks. SonicWall Threat Researchers found hackers launched over 51.1

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2020

FBI says DoppelPaymer ransomware gang is harassing victims who refuse to pay, threatening to send individuals to their homes. According to a private industry notification alert (PIN), sent by the FBI to private organizations, the Bureau is aware of extortion activities that have been happening since February 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2021

Group-IB published a report titled “Ransomware Uncovered 2020-2021 ”. analyzes ransomware landscape in 2020 and TTPs of major threat actors. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, has presented its new report “Ransomware Uncovered 2020-2021 ”.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky linked the Maui ransomware to the North Korea-backed Andariel APT group. Kaspersky linked with medium confidence the Maui ransomware operation to the North Korea-backed APT group Andariel , which is considered a division of the Lazarus APT Group, . SecurityAffairs – hacking, Maui ransomware).

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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 None of these early threats went pro.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As 2020 draws to a close, we're highlighting our Top 10 ACT Posts of 2020 to recap the year in cybersecurity! The Top Cybersecurity Blogs We're Reading in 2020. Healthcare Company UHS a Victim of Major Cyber Attack. Stay tuned here to find out what they were. #10. We love what we do, and we read about it constantly.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A security researcher on Monday said the recent ransomware attacks on hospital chains in Florida and Texas are tied to the Conti ransomware gang. Jamie Hart, cyber threat intelligence analyst at Digital Shadows, confirmed that Leon Medical Centers and Nocona General Hospital were both found on the Conti ransomware data leak site.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Cybersecurity professionals are not standing still for these threats and try to address them properly. In some sense, 2020 was special—the coronavirus pandemic and the global shift to remote working became significant factors affecting the cybersecurity landscape. A new ransomware attack occurs, approximately, every 11 seconds.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Clop Ransomware gang has targeted airplane maker Bombardier from Montreal, Canada, leaving the company employees not only embarrassed by the data breach but also worried as some of their classical data was published online early this week. The post Ransomware Attack on Airplane maker Bombardier appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

Accenture security researchers published an analysis of the latest Hades campaign, which is ongoing since at least December 2020. . Experts discovered that threat actors targeted a large US transportation & logistics organization, a large US consumer products organization, and a global manufacturing organization.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 10, 2021

Cloudstar, one of the title industry’s primary cloud providers, remains compromised after a recent ransomware attack disrupted its services. The Victim of a Ransomware Attack. In July, Cloudstar discovered it was the victim of a highly sophisticated ransomware attack. The Rise in Ransomware Attacks.

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Webroot

APRIL 4, 2022

Cyber threats are becoming increasingly difficult to detect. Our threat research analysts have complied the latest threat intelligence data to bring you the most cutting-edge and insightful information about the most recent cyber threats and what they mean for you. What does this mean for your business?

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Mortgage loan servicing company SN Servicing Corporation notified at least two states in recent weeks of a ransomware attack on its systems. Filings submitted to the California and Vermont state attorneys general disclosed that the company was hit by ransomware attacks on or around Oct.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2023

CISA, and MS-ISAC—along with the cybersecurity authorities in six countries—have published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory entitled, " Understanding Ransomware Threat Actors: LockBit." According to the advisory summary: "In 2022, LockBit was the most deployed ransomware variant across the world and continues to be prolific in 2023.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2022

As this storage medium is not connected to the internet and is offline, it cannot be infected with ransomware…hmm, as of now. In the year 2020, the sale of the compressed capacity was just over 100 exabytes. The post Can Tape Storage block ransomware attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A joint cybersecurity advisory published by US agencies revealed that three ransomware attacks on wastewater systems this year. A joint cybersecurity advisory published today by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and the EPA revealed three more attacks launched by Ransomware gangs against US water and wastewater treatment facilities (WWS) this year.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Malware has been around for nearly 40 years, longer even than the World Wide Web, but ransomware is a different kind of threat, capable of crippling a company and damaging or destroying its critical data. And the threat is growing. Ransomware Protection and Recovery Steps. Ransomware removal tools. Data backup.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All these days we have seen an increase in ransomware attacks against healthcare companies. Now, news is out that the attacks related to file encrypting malware have doubled in 2020 on Universities, especially involved in the development of Corona Virus Vaccine. And on an average, the cost of payments made to hackers reached $450,000.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 23, 2022

North Korea Cyber Threat Group ‘Lazarus’ Targets M1 Mac with Signed Executables. And Lazarus has been linked to the WannaCry ransomware in May 2017 that impacted hospitals, governments and businesses around the world, resulting in an estimated $4 billion in losses , among other incidents (see below). brooke.crothers. UTM Medium.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2022

On February 27, an individual with insights into the Conti ransomware group started leaking a treasure trove of data beginning with internal chat messages. We believe this triggered a strong emotional reaction from either a threat actor or someone with unique access to Conti’s infrastructure. Indicators of Compromise.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

There is an interesting legal twist coming to us now in a lawsuit filed following a 2020 ransomware attack. New ransomware attack strategy, new legal challenges. You pay the ransom, the ransomware operators destroy the data they stole from you and your customers, and now you can sleep at night. This sounds hopeful, right?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

Ransomware attacks are taking center stage as Cyber-threats. There is ample evidence that ransomware has become a preferred method of cyber-attack choice by hackers in 2021. Although there are a variety of trends emerging in the first six months, below are four that stand out as barometers of what lies ahead.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

In 2020, we saw cybersecurity move from being a technical problem to a business issue. The post Ransomware and energy and utilities appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. The exponential growth of IoT devices in the energy and utilities industry has greatly increased focus on cybersecurity. Read full post.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In a year in which ransomware attacks seem to get worse by the day, companies have made surprising progress defending themselves against attacks. Ransomware protection spending (source: Cymulate). Where the greatest optimism comes in is in what tends to happen when a company is hit with ransomware, according to the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

The US FBI warns that the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has breached the networks of at least 52 organizations from multiple US critical infrastructure sectors. “RagnarLocker ransomware actors work as part of a ransomware family, frequently changing obfuscation techniques to avoid detection and prevention.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2021

The reason why ransomware is more rampant today is simple: it’s lucrative for hackers. of ransomware continue to skyrocket concerning the amount of ransom paid, hackers will only continue to pursue it as. In a relatively short period, ransomware has transformed from a minor cybersecurity issue to a. a strategy.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

As Europol celebrated the fifth anniversary of its anti-ransomware initiative this week, menacing new ransomware threats made it clear that the fight against cyber threats is never-ending. The site also provides guidance on preventing ransomware attacks.

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Webroot

APRIL 21, 2021

Although cybercriminal activity throughout 2020 was as innovative as ever, some of the most noteworthy threat activity we saw came from the old familiar players, namely ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. Ransomware. One of the newer trends we saw in ransomware was that of data extortion.

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