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How Groove Gang is Shaking up the Ransomware-as-a-Service Market to Empower Affiliates

McAfee

Yet on April 30, it was reported that the gang suddenly had stopped working with affiliates, including the act of encrypting a victim’s system. By encrypting numerous devices at once, it becomes even harder to control the damage from a defender’s point of view. Originally, the Babuk gang paid affiliates by each victim they attacked.

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The evolution of ransomware in 2019: attackers think bigger, go deeper and grow more advanced

Security Affairs

The findings come as highlights of Group-IB whitepaper titled “ Ransomware Uncovered: Attackers’ Latest Methods ,” closely examining the evolution of the ransomware operators’ strategies over the past year, issued today. Last year, ransomware operators matured considerably, having joined Big Game Hunting and going beyond file encryption.

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MWC 2021: Three key Thales innovations at this year’s event

CyberSecurity Insiders

This allows the person in charge of the private network to discover sensitive and private data, protect it with remediation measures once that sensitive data – both at rest and in motion – has been discovered and then control the environment with master encryption keys to retain data sovereignty.

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10 Cybersecurity Trends That Emerged in 2023

Security Boulevard

But in cybersecurity, dwell time is the time between bad actors’ initial break in and the attack itself, when target data is encrypted. Even bad actors abide by ROI Ransomware began purely from an encryption perspective. First, the modus operandi was to encrypt and hold data for ransom.

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Five Hot Security and Privacy Topics You Need To Understand in 2022

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

These privacy requirements have many companies looking into more advanced encryption methods – like post-quantum crypto and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) – to ensure data transmissions across the Internet or network are protected, secure, and compliant with local laws and regulations now and for years to come. Stay tuned! Data security.

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How to ensure security and trust in connected cars

CyberSecurity Insiders

Connected cars are an untapped well of potential, this being indicated by the fact that the connected vehicles market is projected to reach $166 billion by 2025. PKI also uses encryption, authentication and identity checks to keep the data moving securely to and from the vehicle.

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Six existential threats posed by the future of 5G (Part Two)

CyberSecurity Insiders

Without innovation in this area, the telecoms sector is ripe for the kind of disruption seen in other industries – with challengers sweeping in with a purely digital offering to break up the market. For more information on building a 5G world we can all trust, see our whitepaper here , or tweet us @ThalesDigiSec with your questions.

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