CSO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

In the world of cybercrime, there is not always much good news it seems. However, recently there have been some victories against ransomware criminals. These successes are collaborative efforts that effectively push back against the ransomware ecosystem , not just individual operators.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

The unwanted attention attracted by ransomware attacks recently have caused several of the top cybercrime forums to ban ransomware discussions and transactions on their platforms earlier this year. If anything, the attacks in the months that followed the forum bans then have been more potent and audacious than ever.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today, cybercrime-as-a-service is a lucrative and growing business model among criminals. Ransomware is still a massive threat to organizations. Today, nearly every aspect of the cybercrime toolkit — from initial infection to ways to avoid detection — is available for purchase on the dark web, say researchers.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 5, 2021

Ransomware evolved from a menial cybercrime issue to a crisis that threatens national security. Incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline attack show that this type of criminal activity can impact not just specific organizations that lack good security practices, but every citizen.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A UK/US campaign to tackle international cybercrime has seen Seven Russian cybercriminals linked to a notorious ransomware group exposed and sanctioned. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 20, 2022

Ransomware plagues financial institutions as they face increasingly complex threats over previous years owing to the changing behavior of cybercriminal cartels, according to VMware's latest Modern Bank Heists report.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 22, 2022

Cybercriminals are now operating on a professional footing with easy-to-launch malware and ransomware attacks being offered on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis, allowing people with even rudimentary IT skills to launch cyberattacks at targets of their choosing, the report notes.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Cybercrime is a growing scourge that transcends borders, spreading across the boundaries of virtually all the world's nearly 200 nation-states. From ransomware attacks to rampant cryptocurrency theft, criminal exploitation of borderless digital systems threatens global economic security and the political welfare of all countries.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2022

WannaCry is a ransomware worm that spread rapidly through across a number of computer networks in May of 2017. What is WannaCry? After infecting a Windows computer, it encrypts files on the PC's hard drive, making them impossible for users to access, then demands a ransom payment in bitcoin in order to decrypt them.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2021

The post Ransomware and the C-I-A Triad appeared first on Security Boulevard. You have the data exfiltration attacks, where copies of sensitive personal information and intellectual property are stolen, often without the victims’ knowledge since the original data are left intact.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 21, 2021

The Krebses—Chris and Brian—are not related, but they have both come out with positions on ransomware. I described Chris Krebs’s position on addressing ransomware […]. The post Krebs on Ransomware appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 30, 2022

Costa Rica has been struck not by an earthquake or a bomb or a strike, but by a new national crisis: cybercrime. Nation-states, for-profit cybercrime syndicates, political activists, and determined pranksters trawl the web every hour of every day, looking for their next victim.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

Ransomware has taken center stage in the cybercrime ecosystem, causing over $1 billion in losses last year around the world and earning criminals hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. Ransomware groups are even using them to put additional pressure on their victims.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In this era of cybersecurity, when nation-state digital attacks and cybercrime quickly cut across country borders and create global crises, international cooperation has become an urgent priority.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2022

Cybercrime is fueled by a complex ecosystem of criminal groups that specialize on different pieces of the final attack chains experienced by victims. There are the malware developers, the access brokers, the spammers, the private information sellers, the botnet operators, the malvertizers and more.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The infamous cybercriminal group behind the Conti ransomware has publicly announced its full support for the Russian government while the country's army is invading Ukraine and threatened to strike the critical infrastructure of anyone launching cyberattacks or war actions against Russia.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The evolution of cybercrime is weighing heavily on digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) teams, leading to significant burnout and potential regulatory risk. That’s according to the 2023 State of Enterprise DFIR survey by Magnet Forensics , a developer of digital investigation solutions.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment that charged three Iranian cybercriminals with orchestrating a series of attacks from October 2020 to the present, that resulted in the three being able to access the computer networks of multiple US entities. The three, Mansour Ahmadi, a.k.a. Mansur Ahmadi, 34; Ahmad Khatibi Aghda, a.k.a.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

Researcher leaked Conti gang’s messages: A Ukrainian security researcher leaked over 60,000 internal messages belonging to the Conti ransomware operation after the gang publicly sided with Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. Some Russian media sources say anonymous was the source of these hacks. Hacktivism isn’t necessarily a good idea.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Lucky for cyber criminals, but not so lucky for enterprise security pros: There’s a quick and easy way to get started in cybercrime known as dropper-as-a-service (DaaS). Sophos researchers recently uncovered evidence of a malware campaign using a network of websites acting as a “dropper as a service” to distribute the malware.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2022

Cybercrime can be a very lucrative career choice—if you don’t mind participating in illegal activity or the possibility of getting arrested. Unfortunately with the growth in Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) and the breadth of the cybercrime ecosystem , the challenge is not going away anytime soon. There is no question about it.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

That’s according to a report from the BBC which claimed that children’s SEN information, child passport scans, staff pay scales and contract details have been stolen by notorious cybercrime group Vice Society, known for disproportionately targeting the education sector with ransomware attacks in the UK and other countries.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 16, 2025

This is how you handle cybercrime digital extortion! Coinbase takes security seriously and knows never to pay ransomware or other digital extortion. This is a playbook for every company out there that is at risk of ransomware or other digital extortion! Coinbases answer: NO! This is AWESOME! Welcome to the big leagues!

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

It was responsible for the 2014 attack against Sony Pictures, the 2016 cyber heist of funds belonging to the central bank of Bangladesh, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware worm.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Machine identities now outnumber humans in enterprises, according to Nathanael Coffing, co-founder and CSO of Cloudentity. If the past few years of cybercrime trends indicate anything, it’s that companies have a shocking number of vulnerabilities – and cybercriminals are getting better at exploiting them.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

And get the latest on CISA’s international plan, Interpol’s cyber crackdown and ransomware trends. Together, we’ve not only dismantled malicious infrastructure but also prevented hundreds of thousands of potential victims from falling prey to cybercrime ,” Neal Jetton, Director of Interpol’s Cybercrime Directorate, said in a statement.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Cybercrimes continue to grow in terms of both complexity and frequency. For instance, it was estimated that a company was hit by ransomware every 11 seconds in 2021.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Did you know that over 80% of ransomware attacks can be traced to common configuration errors in software and devices? This ease of access is one of many reasons why cybercriminals have become emboldened by the underground ransomware economy. And yet, many threat actors are working within a limited pool of ransomware groups.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Ransomware an ongoing threat to industry as crime gangs organise Malware-based cyber-attacks are the most prominent threat to industry, Europol says. The agency’s spotlight report examines ‘crime-as-a-service’, lifting the cover on ransomware groups’ business structures. Ransomware reminders were plentiful lately.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

She has 15 years of experience, and yet she's not a CSO at any large organization, rather than curse her fate, she decided to help others, so that maybe they can become the CSOs, and just maybe start to address the diversity problem in InfoSec. In a moment we'll meet a woman who has four graduate degrees in it, plus an MBA.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

She has 15 years of experience, and yet she's not a CSO at any large organization, rather than curse her fate, she decided to help others, so that maybe they can become the CSOs, and just maybe start to address the diversity problem in InfoSec. In a moment we'll meet a woman who has four graduate degrees in it, plus an MBA.

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The Security Ledger

JUNE 17, 2021

The post Episode 217: What Fighting Pirates Teaches Us About Ransomware appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Andy Jaquith is the CSO at QOMPLX. Episode 169: Ransomware comes to the Enterprise with PureLocker. All that complexity bears a striking resemblance to a modern scourge on commerce: ransomware.

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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.

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