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RSAC insights: How IABs — initial access brokers — help sustain, accelerate the ransomware plague

The Last Watchdog

Related: How cybercriminals leverage digital transformation. Or the payload might be a data exfiltration routine — or a full-blown ransomware attack. Sophos’ study of adversary activity found that some 47 percent of attacks started with an exploited vulnerability and 73 percent of attacks involved ransomware.

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What if the Bible Got Deleted?! Welcome to Digital Transformation

SecureWorld News

And he had this to say regarding the benefits of the digitization process. Swaths of history, previously explored only by white-gloved historians, are now made available to anyone with a internet connection. Less Hollywood, but still concerning, is a ransomware attack on the library.

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What if the Bible got Deleted?!? Welcome to Digital Transformation

SecureWorld News

And he had this to say regarding the benefits of the digitization process. Swaths of history, previously explored only by white-gloved historians, are now made available to anyone with a internet connection. This project is about a lot more than just physical preservation. This is a huge step for educational equality.".

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Zero Trust Speeds Ransomware Response, Illumio-Bishop Fox Test Finds

eSecurity Planet

From mass production of cheap malware to ransomware as a service (RaaS) , cyber criminals have industrialized cybercrime, and a new HP Wolf Security report warns that cybercriminals are adapting advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics too. Ransomware: Breach and Attack Simulations. Full Application Ring-fencing Attack Simulation.

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MY TAKE: How ‘CAASM’ can help security teams embrace complexity – instead of trying to tame it

The Last Watchdog

The shift to software-defined everything and reliance on IT infrastructure scattered across the Internet has boosted corporate productivity rather spectacularly. But then along came digital transformation. The opportunity, going forward then, is for security to jump fully onboard the digital transformation bandwagon.

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Combatting ransomware: a holistic approach

IT Security Guru

Although cybercrime as a whole has seen a rise during the pandemic, arguably ransomware has been one of the more successful and lucrative attack types. Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019. Security hygiene is the best defence.

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RSAC insights: Sophos report dissects how improved tools, tactics stop ransomware attack

The Last Watchdog

A new report from Sophos dissects how hackers spent two weeks roaming far-and-wide through the modern network of a large enterprise getting into a prime position to carry out what could’ve been a devasting ransomware attack. They used very nation state-like tactics, from a ransomware perspective,” Schiappa told me.