Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The ransomware attacks that make headlines and steer conversations among cybersecurity professionals usually involve major ransoms, huge corporations and notorious hacking groups. Kia Motors, Accenture, Acer, JBS…these companies were some of the largest to be compromised by ransomware in 2021.

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Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

As we navigate through 2024, the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, bringing new challenges for both businesses and individual consumers. The latest OpenText Threat Report provides insight into these changes, offering vital insights that help us prepare and protect ourselves against emerging threats.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In the October 2021 Threat Report , McAfee Enterprise ATR provides a global view of the top threats, especially those ransomware attacks that affected most countries and sectors in Q2 2021, especially in the Public Sector (Government). Threat Profile Conti Ransomware & BazarLoader to Conti Ransomware in 32hrs.

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Ransomware Government Threat Reports Architecture 77

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Trend of malicious JavaScript downloading Shade ransomware (source: ESET).

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Ransomware Encryption Malware Advertising 74

Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

Threats abound in 2021. In 2021, we witnessed so many competing shifts, many of which we detailed early on in our 2021 BrightCloud® Threat Report. Malware made leaps and bounds in 2021. In particular, six key threats made our list. Ransomware.

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Cybercrime Phishing Ransomware Cryptocurrency 105

SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Researchers on Thursday reported that despite a 50% increase in mobile device management (MDM) adoption during the past year, average quarterly exposure to phishing attacks on mobile devices in the financial sector rose by 125% – and malware and app risk exposure increased by more than five times.

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Mobile Phishing Banking Financial Services 126

SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On July 7, CISA issued an alert, “ North Korean State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Use Maui Ransomware To Target the Healthcare and Public Health Sector “, based on a Stairwell report about Maui ransomware. You can read our public report on Andariel’s use of DTrack and Maui here. The most remarkable findings.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It should come as no surprise that 2021 will be recalled as one of the most disrupting years in the history of cyber-attacks, with ransomware causing mayhem on companies and governments, as well as essential infrastructure, on a scale never previously seen.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

The cyber threat landscape keeps evolving at lightning-speed. According to the latest 2022 BrightCloud® Threat Report , small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are particularly vulnerable to becoming a victim of a ransomware attack. Ransomware, malware and phishing threats keep evolving. Learn More.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2022

Having spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, threats such as malware, ransomware, and DDoS attacks continue to accelerate. According to NIST, the vulnerability allows attackers to carry out unauthenticated remote code executions (RCE) to install malware. Related: Apple tools abuse widespread.

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DDOS Artificial Intelligence Cyber Attacks Malware 214

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. The ransomware attack was said to be executed on 17th January 2021 and over 200Gb of data was exfiltrated. More and More Ransomware Attacks.

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Energy and Utilities Ransomware Banking Hacking 122

Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Throughout the last year, we’ve seen huge spikes in phishing, malicious domains, malware and more, and we don’t expect that to slow down. Recent trends in ransomware back up these insights. Thought to be pioneered by the Maze ransomware group , a new tactic emerged in 2020 in which ransomware authors changed their business model.

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Backups Ransomware Encryption Phishing 95

McAfee

JANUARY 15, 2020

During a time when ransomware continues to bring governments around the world to a halt , one city has turned the tables, by bringing their government to a halt pre-emptively to prevent ransomware. Emotet infection is a precursor to Ryuk ransomware, so I think they dodged the proverbial bullet.”. An Ounce of Prevention ….

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Webroot

MARCH 25, 2022

Data loss can also occur as a result of falling victim to ransomware, malware or phishing. According to the 2022 BrightCloud® Threat Report, medium-sized organizations (21 to 100 licensed PCs) experienced malware infection rates that affected nine PCs on average last year.

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Backups Small Business Phishing Malware 105

Cisco Security

MARCH 15, 2021

Today, an email administrator needs to get the most out of their data and reporting when it comes to the daily management of Business Email Compromise, Ransomware, Malware, and Phishing. The email administrator also has to share the data, reporting and actual emails allowing their SOC and other teams in order to perform X, Y, Z.

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Phishing Threat Reports Ransomware Malware 85

Cisco Security

MARCH 11, 2021

Our Threat Trends blog series takes a look at the activity that we see in the threat landscape and reports on those trends. Then we’ll drill further into the data, looking at trends for particular threats that are known to work together. 51 percent of organizations encountered ransomware-related activity.

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DNS Phishing Ransomware Internet 140

Webroot

MARCH 31, 2021

In the past six weeks we have had two clients hit with ransomware. Backups saved us from a ransomware attack. “I was able to use a backup to restore all my client’s data after a ransomware attack. Sources: 1 SonicWall Capture Labs 2 VMware/Carbon Black Global Threat Report June 2020 3 Webroot RTAP.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users.

Scams 108

Scams Phishing Firewall Social Engineering 108

McAfee

DECEMBER 4, 2020

MVISION Insights provides actionable and preemptive threat intelligence by leveraging our cutting-edge threat research, augmented with sophisticated AI applied to real-time threat telemetry streamed from over 1 billion sensors. Threat Actor Evolution During the Pandemic. Introducing MVISION CNAPP.

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Cyber threats InfoSec Big data Architecture 94

Cisco Security

MARCH 11, 2021

Our Threat Trends blog series takes a look at the activity that we see in the threat landscape and reports on those trends. Then we’ll drill further into the data, looking at trends for particular threats that are known to work together. 51 percent of organizations encountered ransomware-related activity.

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DNS Phishing Ransomware Internet 61

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Dashboards clearly state the quantity and types of indicators of compromise (IoCs) and also provide Pulses to quickly summarize threats and their impact. Additionally, dashboards share data about threat names, any relevant reference URLs, tags, adversary and malware families, and attack IDs.

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