Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Every 11 seconds, a company falls victim to a ransomware attack. The cost of cyber attacks globally in 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, is expected to cost $20 billion. The post How Critical Access Management Protects Government Entities from Cyber Threats appeared first on SecureLink.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The education sector is increasingly vulnerable to simple and sophisticated cyber threats, and higher learning is especially vulnerable. These attacks also tend to be more successful in access and payout in the event of ransom demands, with 74% of attacks ending successfully for hackers. Whitworth University compromised.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Ardent Health Services, a Nashville-based healthcare provider, fell victim to a ransomware attack on Thanksgiving Day morning, November 23, that disrupted its IT operations and forced hospitals to divert emergency room patients to other facilities. In this case, there are two victims.

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SecureBlitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Do you know that ransomware attack is at its peak? In the second quarter of this year, Ryuk led the charge with the most number of ransomware attacks. Ransomware has witnessed a huge increase in 2021, with global attack volume growing by 151 percent in the first half of the year compared to the same.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Lindy Cameron, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has openly announced that Russia launches devastating ransomware attacks on its critical infrastructure. Disclosing her mind at the Chatham House Cyber 2021 Conference, the Ms. In this summer, a dip in the launch of cyber attacks was observed.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

According to a recent report by Kaspersky, the number of the number of Trojan-PSW (Password Stealing Ware) detections increased by almost a quarter globally – 4,003,323 in 2022 compared to 3,029,903 in 2021. In addition, internet attacks also grew from 32,500,00 globally in 2021 to almost 35,400,000 in 2022.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 19, 2021

Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2021 states that most of the German firms are vulnerable to cyber attacks and are topping the list of the study group with a loss tally of $48 million. Researchers who conducted the survey concluded after gauging six key cyber security areas related to people, technology and processes.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), recognized as the world's largest commercial bank, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The incident, which unfolded on November 8, 2023, has sent ripples through the global financial community, emphasizing the escalating cyber threats faced by even the most robust institutions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 21, 2022

FBI has issued a ransomware attack alert to the agriculture sector in the United States as the current time seems to be the busiest for the said sector. One is because other sectors are following healthy cyber hygiene that is strong to breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

It is nearing the mid-year point of 2021, and already it can be characterized as” the year of the breach.” 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.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. Related: It’s all about ‘ attack surface management ‘ However, today’s perpetrator isn’t standing in front of you brandishing a weapon. A typical attack. Ransomware usually starts with a phishing email.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cyber threat actors, with varying resources and motivations, are highly interested in these eye-catching events too. For instance, financially-motivated threat actors often plant in malicious URLs spoofing these events to fraudulent sites, hoping to maximize their chances of scamming naive internet users for a quick (illicit) profit.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2022

Ransomware continues to dominate the headlines. executives say ransomware currently poses a “major concern” to their organization. One of the top cyber threats currently affecting companies is called ‘phishing’, in which a threat actor poses as a legitimate business colleague but follows up with a ransomware attack.

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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. The year 2021 witnessed a storage capacity sale of 150 million terabytes, which was 35% more when compared to the sales of the year 2019. What makes tape storage averse to cyber attacks?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

Cyber attacks are a threat to businesses of all sizes and in all industries. Costs of Cybercrime Global cybercrime costs are on the rise, increasing 15 per cent year over year, according to a 2021 cyberwarfare report by CyberSecurity Ventures. By 2025, it is estimated that cybercrime will cost businesses worldwide $10.5

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JUNE 7, 2022

Conti ransomware was the biggest ransomware strain in 2021, bringing in more than $180 million in ransom payments. So who is behind Conti ransomware?” Conti is a Russia-backed ransomware group that has been around since 2018. Conti is a Russia-backed ransomware group that has been around since 2018.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

With no immediate end in sight to the on-going COVID-19 situation, it looks like homeworking and all the attendant cybersecurity threats that come it will continue for some time. What does this mean for cybersecurity in the public sector in 2021 and what can organizations do to improve their security posture?

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But while lowering cyber threat dwell times always help, until you lower them to under a few hours or days, many cyber-attacks will still succeed. Often, successful cyber-attacks happen in minutes or hours. The problem is that most cyber-attacks complete in well under 21 days, some only taking minutes.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 22, 2021

Security researchers responded Monday to news of the REvil ransomware attack on computer and electronics manufacturer Acer late last week, mostly expressing shock over the $50 million price tag and advising the computer maker not to pay. Quintin Lin, CC BY-SA 2.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

“Prometheus” and “Grief” – a multi-billion dollar ransomware market obtained two new emerging players. Prometheus is a new emerging ransomware group extorting enterprises in various verticals across the globe. The number of cyber attacks in the region is significantly growing. Source: [link].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 15, 2021

Tenable’s Security Response Team says that in the past 2 months over 56 breaches were disclosed by the end of Feb’2021. As per the researchers, most of the healthcare related data breaches happened because of ransomware that accounted for over 54.95 percent of attacks. While RYUK topped the list with over 8.64

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Needless to say, in 2021 cybersecurity was front and center for individuals, enterprises, and governments alike. Data breaches and cybersecurity threats were at an all-time high this past year. The Rise of Ransomware. 2021 saw some of the most damaging ransomware breaches in recent history.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. Yet, boardroom focus on cyber risk appears to be diminishing. But worryingly they appear less concerned by cyber risk than a couple of years ago.

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Trend Micro

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Cyber Incident Notification Act of 2021 would also require CISA to launch a program that would notify organizations of various vectors that malicious actors exploit.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

Small businesses are more vulnerable to cyber-attacks since hackers view them as easy victims to target. While this may seem unlikely, statistics reveal that more than half of these businesses experienced some form of cyber-attack in 2022. They also have a limited budget to spend on effective cyber security measures.

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Cytelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

. – March 1, 2022 – CYPFER, a market leader in Cybersecurity and ransomware recovery advisory, today launched its new website: www.CYPFER.com. Our blog, Intelligence Briefs , will keep CYPFER clients up-to-date on ransomware news. The company’s Leadership Team boasts some of the cybersecurity industry’s heaviest hitters.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 26, 2023

Since February, the group has launched multiple attacks based on their latest ransomware campaign labeled Buhti. and Babuk are strains of ransomware that encrypt files on a victim’s machine and demand payment in exchange for decrypting the files. Babuk is a ransomware that was first discovered in early 2021.

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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. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9 of cyber attacks IBM handled. Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Securing SMB Success: The Indispensable Role of Protective DNS Cyber attacks pose as much risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as they do to large organizations — if not more. Implementing a Domain Name Service (DNS) security solution is the most efficient way to protect your business against a wide variety of attacks.

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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. Identity Theft Protection Tools. Ad Blockers.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2022

The Attack Surface Management team at Group-IB said it constantly scans the IPv4 landscape for exposed databases, potentially unwanted programs, and other risks. From Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, the team discovered 399,200 exposed databases due to those efforts. According to the Attack Surface Management team, an average of 170.2

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

As the threat landscape evolves, so do the tactics for battling cyber attackers. More than ever, companies are challenged to defend their own networks, while cybersecurity companies try to piece together intelligence to disrupt the supply chain of cybercriminals and prevent ransomware gangs from getting a payout. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2023

In fact, only 49% of organizations have a ransomware response plan, compared to 48% in 2022. Yet, the heart of retail operations - point-of-sale (POS) devices - are constantly on the radar of scammers, and when it comes to digital interactions, the retail sector is ranked as one of the most vulnerable industries to cyber-attacks.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The changing of the leaves and the brisk fall mornings around Boston are a sign that 2021 is nearing its end. In the world of cybersecurity in particular, the end of the year brings an avalanche of predictions for what the threat landscape will look like in the year ahead. Ransomware as a threat is already established and well known.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The report provides an inside look at the insights and tools used by risk managers, IT departments, security researchers, and solution providers to hone their offerings and approaches to keeping organizations safe from evolving cyber threats. “By Ransomware claims and costs. Litigation risks for tech vendors.

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