CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Ransomware started out many years as scams where users were being tricked into paying fictitious fines for allegedly engaging in illegal online behavior or, in more serious cases, were blackmailed with compromising videos taken through their webcams by malware. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 15, 2023

Companies with cyber insurance are more likely to get hit by ransomware, more likely to be attacked multiple times, and more likely to pay ransoms, according to a recent survey of IT decision makers. Back in 2019, fewer than 20% of enterprises suffered repeat ransomware attacks, while during the pandemic, the percentage rose to around 30%.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

ExtraHop threat researchers have observed attackers in the wild using encrypted traffic to avoid detection of Log4Shell attacks. This is consistent with the general trend of cyberattackers using encryption as an evasion mechanism to avoid detection during both the initial intrusion and lateral movement stages of an attack, among others.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

Smart infrastructure provider Nebulon today announced the immediate availability of TripLine, an early warning system for cryptographically based ransomware attacks on on-premises systems. To read this article in full, please click here It’s designed to quickly identify the precise time and system location where an attack has occurred.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Retailers are fast becoming the favorite targets for ransomware criminals, with two out of three companies in the sector being attacked last year, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Sophos. Attackers were able to successfully encrypt files in more than half of the attacks.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 20, 2023

Ransomware group BianLian has shifted the main focus of its attacks away from encrypting the files of its victims to focusing more on extortion as a means to extract payments from victims, according to cybersecurity firm Redacted. To read this article in full, please click here The decryption tool was released in January.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The FBI is warning companies that a ransomware group calling itself OnePercent or 1Percent is leveraging the IceID Trojan and the Cobalt Strike backdoor to gain a foothold inside networks. The ransomware group has been active since at least November 2020 and has hit companies in the United States.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 8, 2023

A cybercriminal group has been compromising enterprise networks for the past two months and has been deploying a new ransomware program that researchers dubbed CACTUS. Encrypted files are appended with.cts1, although Kroll notes the number at the end of the extension has been observed to vary across incidents and victims.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

What is Ransomware? Ransomware (ransom + malware) is a form of malware designed to allow malicious actors to extort money from an organization. This is accomplished by using a variety of encryption techniques that lock an organization's files to then force the organization to pay for the key to unlock the data.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2022

WannaCry is a ransomware worm that spread rapidly through across a number of computer networks in May of 2017. After infecting a Windows computer, it encrypts files on the PC's hard drive, making them impossible for users to access, then demands a ransom payment in bitcoin in order to decrypt them. What is WannaCry?

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The recent attack on Greece’s largest natural gas transmission operator DESFA by ransomware gang Ragnar Locker is the latest on a growing list of incidents where ransomware groups attacked energy companies. To read this article in full, please click here over the past two years.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2022

A new strain of ransomware has been making victims for the past two months, masquerading as a Google software update application and reusing an open-source password management library for encryption. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

DarkSide is a ransomware threat that has been in operation since at least August 2020 and was used in a cyberattack against Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline , leading to a major fuel supply disruption along the East Coast of the US. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Retail has a ransomware problem. While almost every sector has been plagued by ransomware over this past year– which is malicious software that locks access to systems and encrypts data so that users cannot access it – retail is a particularly hard hit vertical. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

Researchers warn that documents hosted in the cloud might not be out of reach for ransomware actors and that while they're harder to permanently encrypt due to the automated backup features of cloud service, there are still ways to make life hard for organizations. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

Ransomware attacks on large enterprises like Colonial Pipeline dominate the headlines. But did you know small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) account for at least half of all ransomware attacks, if not closer to two-thirds, according to the U.S. 1 In fact, ransomware is the most common cyberthreat that SMBs face. What it is.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It is hard to believe how far ransomware has evolved since its origins in the early 1980s. In fact, according to recent reports , ransomware attacks increased by 80% in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of 2021. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Healthcare facilities are currently a favorite target of criminals who use ransomware (aka malicious software) to launch attacks. Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations also tie up hundreds of IT staff hours responding and recovering, impact multiple branches and clinics, and damage hard-earned business reputations.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

In this valuable NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report video , we explore the triple extortion attack method by looking at three key components: Data Encryption. Fact: Ransomware gangs have added triple-extortion attacks to their criminal service offerings. Data Theft. DDoS Attacks.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

With network attacks booming, endpoints under duress from ransomware, and massive amounts of malware hiding in encrypted traffic, it’s never been more important to centralize and unify the security of network environments, users, and devices. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Conti ransomware affiliates are using Microsoft Exchange servers to hack into corporate networks using recently disclosed ProxyShell vulnerability exploits. Sophos made the discovery in a customer engagement in which the ransomware gang used Exchange to encrypt a customer’s data. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

NotPetya was so named because it was similar to but different from Petya, a self-propagating ransomware virus discovered in 2016 that, unlike other nascent forms of ransomware at the time, was incapable of being decrypted. To read this article in full, please click here To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Windows 11 systems can also take advantage of vPro’s memory encryption to provide better virtualization-based security. In tests conducted by SE Labs and commissioned by Intel, the vPro platform had 93% efficacy at detecting top ransomware attacks, a 24% improvement over software alone. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A successful phishing campaign will download just the kind of malware that drives ransomware. Learn how to recognize signs of compromise and stop the proliferation of attacks and malware that are known to drop ransomware before the encryption occurs and you receive the ransom note.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 21, 2021

The cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline is the latest in an increasing number of ransomware attacks that have been targeting both private enterprise and the public sector. In this case, it appears that the ransomware variant involved is DarkSide, which ExtraHop has seen in customer environments.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

We have our normal password management processes, password storage tools, and encryption processes. Your servers are hit with ransomware or hacked. To read this article in full, please click here Doing so requires multiple backups, cloud resources, and tested backup and recovery processes. Then disaster strikes.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 21, 2021

Four years ago, the WannaCry ransomware variant spread like wildfire, infecting and encrypting over 230,000 computers at public- and private-sector organizations worldwide, and inflicting hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in damage. To read this article in full, please click here And it's not just SMBv1.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ransomware was a $350+ million dollar business in 2020 , and all signs point to major growth in 2021. We saw increased usage of the double-extortion method, in which ransomware gangs exfiltrate data and threaten to release it publicly, on top of their traditional encryption-for-ransom scheme, to extract even greater payments from victims.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

The hackers purportedly compromised the railway system’s routing and switching devices and rendered them inoperable by encrypting data stored on them. It's worth noting that the situation is really quite unprecedented,” Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft, tells CSO. “I To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Consequently, when the pandemic forced many to suddenly shift to working out of home offices and other off-site locations, a spike in malware , particularly ransomware , was experienced worldwide. These malicious hackers were then able to infiltrate networks by hijacking encrypted VPN tunnels.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Ransomware is believed to be the attack method used by LAPSUS$ to target Samsung, which has confirmed a security breach of certain internal company data. The ransomware group first teased the data haul on Friday, March 4, with a snapshot of C/C++ directives in Samsung software. Attackers claim to have 190GB of Samsung data.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The platform contains security enhancements including: Threat Detection Technology (TDT), a hardware-based way to detect ransomware in an efficient and timely manner. To read this article in full, please click here Intel pulled the wraps off its latest vPro platform powered by its 12th Gen Core processors last week.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The analysis discovered that the threat actors behind the campaign leverage extortion without malware-based encryption, have significantly invested in call centers and infrastructure unique to attack targets, and are evolving their tactics over time. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

CrowdStrike: Endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and response company CrowdStrike has released a new tool to decrypt “PartyTicket” ransomware targeting Ukrainian entities since February 23. The firm stated that the ransomware contains implementation errors, making its encryption breakable and slow.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

Those issues continue to exist in ChatGPT, and both can be tricked into creating ransomware , obfuscating malware , and other exploits, they said. I’m more concerned about what these issues suggest for the future. The key is getting ahead of the risks.”

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this article we will learn how to address and effectively respond to major enterprise cybersecurity threats and provide tips to mitigate IT security risk. One example is our phenomenal Ransomware Protection and G Suite security feature.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It also deploys file encrypting malware, but unlike ransomware, the goal is to cause business disruption and cover its tracks rather than financial gain. To read this article in full, please click here Who is Moses Staff?

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