CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cyber risk is the third critical corporate risk in 2021, as per the latest Allianz Risk Barometer. Malicious hackers are taking advantage of technological advancements and developments to hack and exploit the resources of businesses. Application Layer. Network elements. Policies and Procedures. Information. Data Owner. Size of Data.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Botnet owners (botmasters) sell access to the victim machines in bulk as a resource that can be monetized in many ways, such as organizing DDoS attacks, distributing spam or, in the case of ransomware, by piggybacking on this initial infection to get a foothold in a potential target. REvil operators have demanded the highest ransoms in 2021.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Introduction Knowledge is our best weapon in the fight against cybercrime. Triple extortion: adding a threat to expose the victim’s internal infrastructure to DDoS attacks. The model became widespread after the LockBit gang got DDoS’ed , possibly by a victim. DDoS attacks in that case are not necessary.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

losses from cybercrime topped $4.1 Today’s columnist, Glenn Mulvaney of Clumio, says while ransomware has become a hot-button issue, companies also need to focus on viruses, DDoS attacks, cryptojacking, and securing the cloud. Backup and recovery should also be important components of an organization’s data protection planning.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2022

Watching and assessing these tendencies not only provides us with threat intelligence to fight cybercrime today, but also helps us deduce what trends may see in the months to come and prepare for them better. BlackCat started offering their services in December 2021 on the dark web. Conti parameters (Linux ESXi).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Cloudflare mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks last weekend, most of them ranging from 50 to 70 million requests per second (RPS) – and the largest one exceeding 71 million RPS. DDoS attacks, on the other hand, don’t require infiltration to be effective and thus are growing in frequency and intensity.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A report from IBM claims that 21% of all cyber attacks the company remediated in 2021 were ransomware, making it the most common type of attack in the report. To apply more pressure, the attacker might also encrypt backup files to render them inaccessible. And immutable backups are a particularly important ransomware protection.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Vamosi: In the summer of 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the US. It's I would call it cybercrime as a service where it's kind of not just ransomware anymore. Well, the victim may have had a good backup and recovery process in place. note: this is a machine generated transcript so there may be transcription errors]. Vamosi: Right.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In late 2021, we encountered a malicious DXE driver incorporated into several UEFI firmware images that were flagged by our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). Pangolin is private malware we discovered in 2021, exclusively used by ZexCone, the threat actor behind ExCone and DexCone. Middle East.

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