Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. While ransomware attacks have been around for decades, their frequency has exponentially increased in the last few years, let alone the past several months during the pandemic. The potency of a ransomware attack lies in its diabolical ingenuity.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But did you know that by doubling it in length, even if it only included upper and lowercase letters, it would take six years to crack? Data protection and privacy roundup The European Data Protection Board has released a guide for SMEs about respecting individual’s rights under GDPR. It’s available to read here.

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BH Consulting

MAY 23, 2023

Say it again, I double dare you Anyone familiar with phishing and social engineering will know scammers often use psychological tricks to get victims to divulge personal data. The first study showed that asking for real personal data led to increased information disclosure when the same people were asked again.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks. Attacks doubled. Ransomware attacks almost doubled during 2021 over 2020, according to Sophos State of Ransomware 2022 report, affecting 66% of businesses, up from 37%. They have also become increasingly proficient at encrypting data. Backup Your Data.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Since the mainstreaming of ransomware payloads and the adoption of cryptocurrencies that facilitate untraceable payments, malicious actors have been innovating new methods and tactics to evade the latest defenses. Our researchers have been hard at work uncovering the worst offenders to better build defenses against them.

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 3, 2023

What it means — CitrixBleed ransomware group woes grow as over 60 credit unions, hospitals, financial services and more breached in US. Credit union technology firm Trellance own Ongoing Operations LLC, and provide a platform called Fedcomp — used by double digit number of other credit unions across the United States.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

In this short blog post, we will review IsaacWiper and CaddyWiper, two new wipers that do not have much in common based on their source code, but with the same intent of destroying targeted Ukrainian computer systems. Other artifacts were named as HermeticWiper (wiper), HermeticWizard (spreader) and HermeticRansom (ransomware).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2021

Many employees don’t have a wide range of security protections. To minimize the chances of attack, enterprises need to double down on IAM with devices that can effectively monitor user activities, corporate connective behaviors, and resource requests in a bid to streamline sign-in.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

What’s more, they often hide in plain sight, using both covert and overt tactics to cause disruption, steal money and data, and wreak havoc with MSPs and SMBs. While cybersecurity advice is often focused on technology like endpoint protection, firewalls and anti-virus, it’s important to remember that behind every breach is a human.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Traditionally, software developers have protected themselves from malicious code like everyone else?—?by Often, like in the case of ransomware, malicious code both benefits the attacker and harms the victim. In other cases, like wipers, malicious code simply destroys data or inflicts other harm upon the target system.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Target the human, swipe the cash: Verizon DBIR 2023 highlights crime trends Manage the human risk and mind your money: those are two key takeaways from Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. Verizon said this could be why business email compromise attacks (which are essentially pretexting) have almost doubled on last year.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2022

Introduction: Hacking forums often double up as underground marketplaces where cybercriminals buy, rent, and sell all kinds of malicious illegal products, including software, trojans, stealers, exploits, and leaked credentials. Advanced Threat Protection: Win32.PWS.Blackguard. Crypto wallet stealing function. umpulumpu.ru.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Easy as RDP: attacks mount as ransomware gangs seek out easy access. Worried about ransomware? Better check your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) endpoints are secure, as attacks against them have more than doubled since June. We also cover this attack vector in our comprehensive white paper on ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The hacking of the FBI email server appears to be the latest escalation in the campaign against Troia. FBI officials said that the compromised server was used for pushing notifications for LEEP, wasn’t part of the agency’s corporate email server, and that the bad actor had not been able to access or compromise data on the FBI network.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 21, 2022

Top findings revealing the current threat landscape included: 87 percent of enterprise security decision makers were the victims of successful cyberattacks perpetrated against them that resulted in damage, disruption, or a breach to their business in the past 3 years. 39 percent of those impacted paid a ransom. days to respond and 3.1

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Ransomware has given security professionals a headache for the better part of a decade. Germany, the UK, and Italy also registered high ransomware tallies. To understand how we got here, let’s first take a closer look at recent statistics on the top ransomware variants, countries and industries attacked. Top ransomware variants.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

The number-one reported motive for a cyber breach is financial gain, and ransomware 3.0 In Australia, the threat of ransomware attacks has been growing, with the Australian economy reportedly losing up to $2.59 In the final instalment of this series, we cover the rise of ransomware 3.0 The Rise of Ransomware 3.0

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SecureList

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the past twelve months, the word “ransomware” has popped up in countless headlines worldwide across both print and digital publications: The Wall Street Journal , the BBC , the New York Times. That is precisely why we have chosen ransomware as our story of the year for Kaspersky’s annual Security Bulletin.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s hard to wrap our heads around every new risk out there; nowadays a single well-intended click of a GoFraudMe link can download malware that locks and holds your data for ransom. The advancing ransomware business is a threat not just for the big guys, but for organizations of every size. What is Cyber Liability Insurance?

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Scammers abused legitimate survey services by creating polls in the name of various organization to profit from victims’ personal, including sensitive, data. The cybercrooks might also use the data to contact their victims later, staging a more convincing swindle. Others offered the coveted Green Pass without vaccination.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

CVE-2021-33885 – Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVSS 9.7). For a brief overview please see our summary blog here. Understanding Critical Data. Due to this modular and isolated design, the Spacecom communication module and the pump need a dedicated path for exchanging data. Table of Contents.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In fact, it’s an obvious ransomware attack. This is what ransomware looks like. What Is Ransomware? Ransome is a special malware that threatens to perpetually block access to your data unless you pay a ransom. The primary goal of ransomware is to make you pay a ransom, hence the name. Files in the PDF format.

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Elie

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the last two years, ransomware has been all over the news. Hardly a week goes by without a report of a large ransomware outbreak or the emergence of a new ransomware family. Despite all this attention, very little is known about how profitable ransomware is and who the criminals are that benefit from it. final post.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Four years ago, the Australian Signals Directorate created the “Essential Eight” — recommendations to secure federal entities and improve cybersecurity protections. This month, the Attorney General’s Department announced plans to extend the protective security policy framework (PSPF) to require implementation and audit of all eight areas.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

As a business owner, you must be aware of the implications of different types of malware on your company’s bottom line, and what steps you can take to protect your company from future attacks. We’ll be discussing how to detect and remove malware silently lurking in your system, exfiltrating sensitive data. Ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2022

BlackByte is a full-featured ransomware family that first emerged around July 2021. The ransomware was originally written in C# and later redeveloped in the Go programming language around September 2021. The threat group exfiltrates data prior to deploying ransomware and leaks the stolen information if a ransom is not paid.

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Herjavec Group

JULY 29, 2021

But in spite of it all, the cybersecurity industry and the professionals within it continue to step up and tirelessly work to protect organizations against cyber threats. I’ve always believed that the best way to build a strong cybersecurity program is to utilize all the data. The Rise of Ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

The SolarWinds attack affected a number of government agencies, while the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack nearly shut down the U.S. The software and cloud giant also will make $150 million in technical services available to federal, state and local governments to upgrade their security protections. Here’s What You Need to Watch.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Would you use it? Would you help others?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Would you use it? Would you help others?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

Data security is a C-suite imperative for 2022 and beyond. By mid-2021, 51 percent of all organizations had reported a successful data breach, and 61 percent had paid a ransomware attacker to restore frozen data and systems. By Amit Shaked, CEO, Laminar . Seven Cloud Security Predictions CISOs Can Use in 2022.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. Verdict: prediction fulfilled ✅ Explosion of attacks against cloud security and outsourced services.

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