The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. Yet, boardroom focus on cyber risk appears to be diminishing. trillion by 2025, a 300% increase since 2015 1.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 16, 2024

In this Spotlight Podcast, host Paul Roberts talks with Chris Walcutt, the CSO of DirectDefense about the rising cyber threats facing operational technology (OT) and how organizations that manage OT - including critical infrastructure owners can best manage increased cyber risks to OT environments.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Ardent Health Services, a Nashville-based healthcare provider, fell victim to a ransomware attack on Thanksgiving Day morning, November 23, that disrupted its IT operations and forced hospitals to divert emergency room patients to other facilities.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2022

Staying Ahead of the Distortion of a Cyber Attack? Each firewall, IDS, MFA, and email security is built to protect and stop cyber attacks. Given this fact, businesses should note the growing number of security issues and cyber threats. However, do most cybersecurity attacks happen the way it is portrayed?

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This initiative, backed by a substantial $500 million investment, sets forth a series of nation-leading proposed regulations for hospitals, bolstering their defenses against ever-evolving cyber threats. The act mandates risk assessments, incident reporting, and data breach notification procedures.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Check for leftover artifacts of the threat actors and make sure to remove any malicious files from your network. DarkSide Ransomware Campaign. The DarkSide ransomware group provided Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) to other threat actors. Practice risk management for the worst case event. Lessons Learned: 3.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 19, 2021

Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2021 states that most of the German firms are vulnerable to cyber attacks and are topping the list of the study group with a loss tally of $48 million. Researchers who conducted the survey concluded after gauging six key cyber security areas related to people, technology and processes.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cyber threat actors, with varying resources and motivations, are highly interested in these eye-catching events too. For instance, financially-motivated threat actors often plant in malicious URLs spoofing these events to fraudulent sites, hoping to maximize their chances of scamming naive internet users for a quick (illicit) profit.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 21, 2022

FBI has issued a ransomware attack alert to the agriculture sector in the United States as the current time seems to be the busiest for the said sector. One is because other sectors are following healthy cyber hygiene that is strong to breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Manufacturing needs to adopt a Zero Trust approach to mitigate increased cyber threats. Today, at the dawn of the 4th industrial revolution, manufacturers of all kinds are a tempting and vulnerable high-value target for threat actors because of their high intrinsic worth and the dangers of economic harm from supply chain disruptions.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JUNE 7, 2022

Risk Level. Conti ransomware was the biggest ransomware strain in 2021, bringing in more than $180 million in ransom payments. So who is behind Conti ransomware?” Conti is a Russia-backed ransomware group that has been around since 2018. Conti is a Russia-backed ransomware group that has been around since 2018.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2022

Ransomware continues to dominate the headlines. executives say ransomware currently poses a “major concern” to their organization. One of the top cyber threats currently affecting companies is called ‘phishing’, in which a threat actor poses as a legitimate business colleague but follows up with a ransomware attack.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. Related: It’s all about ‘ attack surface management ‘ However, today’s perpetrator isn’t standing in front of you brandishing a weapon. A typical attack. Ransomware usually starts with a phishing email.

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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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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

National Critical Infrastructure Under Attack: Clop Ransomware. This is another NCI nation-state ransomware attack. The recent criminal cyber activity on the IT infrastructure on Monday caused a U.K. According to a report on Bleepingcomputer, the Clop ransomware gang claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.K.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The education sector is increasingly vulnerable to simple and sophisticated cyber threats, and higher learning is especially vulnerable. These attacks also tend to be more successful in access and payout in the event of ransom demands, with 74% of attacks ending successfully for hackers. Whitworth University compromised.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Healthcare ransomware is increasing. The sector has always been a lucrative target for malicious actors, but the pandemic emergency has been a great vehicle for adversaries to launch an increasing number of ransomware attacks against hospitals. In the last few months, we’ve seen rising hospital ransomware attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Unfortunately, this opens all our businesses to the risk of nefarious actors exploiting these relationships for their own gain. As we have seen concepts like ‘Ransomware-as-a-service’ evolve and grow, it is safe to assume that the use of Deepfakes will only continue to profligate within the industry.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

By understanding their motivations, we can better comprehend the risks and develop effective strategies to protect ourselves. These attacks often occur through tricky emails, text messages, or phone calls, enticing or fearing unsuspecting victims into providing their information. Share it with your friends.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks targeting education institutions. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks against education institutions. PowerShell) to easily deploy tooling or ransomware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

Creeping cyber risk grabbing global headlines Ransomware keeps reminding us of the strong connection between a cybersecurity incident and financial loss. CNN reports that ransomware victims in the US healthcare sector say they’re “haemorrhaging money”, as disruption affects their daily operations.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

Cyber attacks are a threat to businesses of all sizes and in all industries. As cyber-attacks become more frequent and advanced, businesses need to be prepared to respond to incidents. Ransomware as a Threat Cybersecurity Venture’s report also highlighted ransomware as a major threat.

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Cytelligence

AUGUST 8, 2023

Understanding the cost of cybersecurity breaches is crucial for small business owners to highlight the importance of a cybersecurity audit and the role of ransomware services in safeguarding their operations and reputation. Cyber attackers find small businesses an attractive target for several reasons.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Coalition, a cyber insurance company, recently released a report detailing the categories of cyber attacks as well as the cause behind the attacks for the first half of 2020. The number one type of cyber incident so far this year is ransomware. And the most popular attack vector was phishing.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 22, 2021

Security researchers responded Monday to news of the REvil ransomware attack on computer and electronics manufacturer Acer late last week, mostly expressing shock over the $50 million price tag and advising the computer maker not to pay. Quintin Lin, CC BY-SA 2.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Cytelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While these advancements have revolutionized healthcare delivery, they have also exposed the industry to significant cybersecurity risks. California, being a hub of innovation and home to numerous healthcare organizations, faces unique challenges in safeguarding sensitive patient information from cyber threats.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Last Watchdog posed two questions: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization? ai Antani Many speculated that the ransomware attack on a Toyota supply chain player in Kojima, Japan was in retaliation for Japan’s aid to Ukraine.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 15, 2021

As per the researchers, most of the healthcare related data breaches happened because of ransomware that accounted for over 54.95 percent of attacks. percent ransomware breaches, Maze followed the path with over 6.17 While RYUK topped the list with over 8.64 percent breaches on a respective note.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

Cybersecurity US holds conference on military AI use with dozens of allies to determine ‘responsible’ use DFSA’s Cyber Risk Management Guidelines: A Blueprint for Cyber Resilience?

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 27, 2023

Six years have passed since the infamous NotPetya cyber attack sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity landscape. Initially disguised as ransomware, NotPetya quickly revealed its true destructive nature, spreading damage to businesses and governments around the world, resulting in billions of dollars in losses.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

While cybersecurity teams can leverage ChatGPT defensively, the lower barrier to entry for launching a cyberattack has both complicated and escalated the threat landscape. Today, hackers use AI to power their ransomware attacks, making them more precise, adaptable, and destructive. This is where the danger lies.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With this modernized banking, banks and financial institutions are under constant threat from a wide range of cyber attacks. These attacks can lead to catastrophic consequences for the financial institution and its customers, resulting in financial loss, reputational damage, and loss of trust.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

“Prometheus” and “Grief” – a multi-billion dollar ransomware market obtained two new emerging players. Prometheus is a new emerging ransomware group extorting enterprises in various verticals across the globe. The number of cyber attacks in the region is significantly growing. Source: [link].

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But while lowering cyber threat dwell times always help, until you lower them to under a few hours or days, many cyber-attacks will still succeed. Often, successful cyber-attacks happen in minutes or hours. The problem is that most cyber-attacks complete in well under 21 days, some only taking minutes.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 22, 2020

A sharp increase in technological reliance, be it through eCommerce or remote work, heightens the risk of cyber threats. Just ask Claire's, who recently experienced a malware attack linked to store closures. Now, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has a new warning about ransomware threat actors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

Small businesses are more vulnerable to cyber-attacks since hackers view them as easy victims to target. While this may seem unlikely, statistics reveal that more than half of these businesses experienced some form of cyber-attack in 2022. They also have a limited budget to spend on effective cyber security measures.

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