SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Persistent ransomware threats, increasing risk to critical infrastructure, state-sponsored activity, more bad actors, and new, disruptive technologies are the five cyber threat narratives noted in the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2023-2024 recently released by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. Ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. We’ve arrived at a critical juncture: to enable the full potential of the Internet of Everything, attack surface expansion must be slowed and ultimately reversed.

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SecureList

MAY 25, 2021

Over the past few years, the ransomware threat landscape has been gradually changing. In some cases, this global trend is just a reflection of the continuous life cycle of threats: old ransomware families shut down and new ones appear and pursue new targets. We have been witness to a paradigm shift. Chronology. Cryptographic scheme.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

As the world marks the second Anti-Ransomware Day, there’s no way to deny it: ransomware has become the buzzword in the security community. Yet, much of the media attention ransomware gets is focused on chronicling which companies fall prey to it. Part I: Three preconceived ideas about ransomware.

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SecureList

APRIL 23, 2021

Kaspersky has been following the ransomware landscape for years. In the past, we’ve published yearly reports on the subject: PC ransomware in 2014-2016 , Ransomware in 2016-2017 , and Ransomware and malicious crypto miners in 2016-2018. Was ransomware, in fact, a dying species of malware? What was happening?

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