eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

Third-party security, ransomware , artificial intelligence (AI) and decentralized finance (DeFi) are some of the threats you can expect to see more of this year – with the potential for far worse results than we’ve seen in the past. Ransomware and Critical Infrastructure Attacks Get Worse. AI Attacks Lead to Regulation.

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Spinone

JANUARY 24, 2020

If you are here, you probably know what is ransomware and how ransomware works. Ransomware protection is necessary for any organization, as ransomware attacks entail significant costs, plus data recovery and down-time process can last for many weeks. SpinOne is a fully automated end-to-end ransomware protection solution.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The worldwide cost of ransomware attacks is predicted to reach $20 billion by 2021. Ransomware targets everyone: individual users, small businesses, enterprise environments, and even government organizations. Ransomware strains get more and more evasive, which allows them to avoid getting detected by most antiviruses.

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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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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Ransomware attacks cost smaller companies an average of $713,000 per incident. No wonder this threat keeps our client’s CISO and security teams up at night. Because relying on one solution like antivirus won’t get you far in case of a full-blown ransomware attack. Backup your data at least three times a day; 3.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 19, 2022

million patients have been exposed to a ransomware infection after a Colorado-based debt collection firm serving hundreds of medical facilities and hospitals across America was breached. In the last 18 months, companies have been misled into believing that investing in backup and recovery solutions is the answer to their ransomware woes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 28, 2022

Ransomware attacks have been in the public eye for quite a while now. Growth is propelled not only by the surge in the number of cybercrime groups specializing in ransomware, but to a large extent, also by the continual increase in attack sophistication. Breaking The Myths: Storage, Backup, And Data Recoverability.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That’s the dilemma hundreds of organizations caught in the continuing surge of crippling ransomware attacks have faced. Related: How ransomware became such a scourge The FBI discourages it, as you might have guessed. That pay or not to pay debate aside, there’s a more central question raised by the ransomware plague.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Build a playbook for ransomware response and recovery. Data encryption for data at rest and in transit. In Michigan’s Cyber Partners Program , for example, local communities receive services from a CISO-level consultant. Build a playbook for ransomware response and recovery. Table of Contents. Partner up!

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McAfee

OCTOBER 31, 2021

At McAfee Enterprise and FireEye we work to track malicious actors and integrate intelligence into our products and make content available for CISO, CEO etc. You should also maintain regular, offline backups and have an incident response plan ready. It’s important to understand the threat and what is happening. By Christiaan Beek.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 8, 2021

It was bound to happen: a supply-chain compromise, ala SolarWinds, has been combined with a ransomware assault, akin to Colonial Pipeline, with devasting implications. From there, the malware began encrypting files on the victim’s machine. It even took steps to make it harder for victims to recover from data backups.

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Cisco Security

JULY 14, 2021

Ransomware is wreaking havoc. Ransomware is making its way outside the cybersecurity space. Most people probably know what ransomware is (if not, go here ). Ransomware is now everyone’s problem – from governments to corporations and even individuals. Why is ransomware so dangerous, especially now? What can we do?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work. That said, empower your employees with an effective and simple Data Loss Protection solution , allowing Automated backup and restore, deletion control , smooth migration, version control , activity reports, etc.,

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So you’ve been hit with ransomware and, for whatever reason, you paid the bitcoin but now the decryptor doesn’t work. Vamosi: So you’re CISO at a major corporation and all of sudden there’s been a ransomware attack in your network, and it’s spreading throughout your infrastructure.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

Fighting against ransomware can be difficult—especially if your organization has limited IT resources to begin with. But Adam Kujawa, security evangelist and director of Malwarebytes Labs, has a few tips for overburdened IT folks looking to simplify their fight against ransomware. 3 tips to simplify the fight against ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

With lateral movement across a victim’s IT infrastructure, threat actors can escalate privileges, spread malware , extract data , and disrupt IT services as with ransomware attacks. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP. As CISO Debbi Blyth put it, “The server was discovered almost immediately by the attackers.”

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 18, 2021

Ransomware. Another day, another high-profile ransomware attack shutting down another major business. So how do you get ahead of ransomware from a detection standpoint? First, let’s discuss what ransomware is and what it’s not. So what’s different now, making ransomware so urgent to address? Threat Hunting.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The LockBit ransomware gang no longer offers just one service, like ransomware, but multiple services, like anti-analysis tools and bug bounty programs. Mick Baccio from Splunk’s SURGe explains how ransomware gangs are evolving into crimeware-as-a-service platforms, as one stop shop for all your online criminal needs.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Preceding the conference, the United States experienced its biggest cyberattack on critical infrastructure to date with ransomware hitting Colonial Pipeline. Ransomware: Encryption, Exfiltration, and Extortion. Ransomware perpetrators of the past presented a problem of availability through encryption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The resulting increase in incidents of ransomware and other malicious cyberattacks that occurred were spurred on by the use of unsecured collaboration tools – systems that increased the risk of internal leaks in circumstances where access privileges and security protocols were not rigorously followed or enforced. Tyler Farrar ,CISO, Exabeam.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Fortunately, vendor surveys identify five key cybersecurity threats to watch for in 2024: compromised credentials, attacks on infrastructure, organized and advanced adversaries, ransomware, and uncontrolled devices. No specific tool exists to defend specifically against nation state attacks, ransomware gangs, or hacktivists.

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