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The Analyst Prompt #20: Attack Against Tata Power Highlights Cyber Risk to India’s Growing and Increasingly Connected Population?

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Key Infrastructure and Critical Vulnerabilities: Attack Against Tata Power Highlights Cyber Risk to India’s Growing and Increasingly Connected Population. The post The Analyst Prompt #20: Attack Against Tata Power Highlights Cyber Risk to India’s Growing and Increasingly Connected Population?

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The Surge of Double Extortion Ransomware Attacks

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Victims are instructed to pay a ransom payment, usually demanded in cryptocurrency, in exchange for the decryption key. Sopra Steria - One of the Largest Reported Ransoms Europe's major IT services firm Sopra Steria was breached in October 2020 by the Ryuk gang, with extensive backups preventing major disruption.

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Higher Ed Ransomware Attack: University Pays Hackers $450,000

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The ISO assisted the college in restoring locally managed IT services and systems from backup copies. The University had servers encrypted but restored the systems and the access from backups. The University made the payment in cryptocurrency, through a third party firm. And number one is cyber insurance.

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Types of Cyber Security Threats in 2020 and How to Prevent Them

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Coupled with the current pandemic and the cybersecurity threats that have been very prevalent and growing in recent years such as ransomware, there are many different cyber risk types n 2020 that your business needs to prepare for. What are the types of cyber security threats? First of all, what is a cyberattack?