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Lapsus$ Ransomware Group is hiring, it announced recruitment of insiders

Security Affairs

Lapsus$ Ransomware gang is looking for insiders willing to sell remote access to major technology corporations and ISPs. Thursday, March 10, Lapsus$ ransomware gang announced they’re starting to recruit insiders employed within major technology giants and ISPs, such companies include Microsoft, Apple, EA Games and IBM.

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Ransomware Taxonomy: Four Scenarios Companies Should Safeguard Against

Cisco Security

While October is designated as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, focusing on keeping your company and customers safe should be a constant priority, especially with the growing number and sophistication of ransomware attacks worldwide. This is the classic attack scenario that comes to mind for most folks when you hear the word “ransomware.”

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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The report’s findings reveal that email remains the main method of delivering ransomware, banking Trojans, and backdoors. The revival of ransomware. Financial departments at high risk.

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RSA 2022 Musings: The Past and The Future of Security

Anton on Security

To further illustrate this point, one of the innovations sandbox participants showed the slide that mentioned that the VPN market alone today is larger than the entirety of all cloud security markets, defined broadly and loosely, and then rounded upwards. There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022.

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RSA 2022 Musings: The Past and The Future of Security

Security Boulevard

To further illustrate this point, one of the innovations sandbox participants showed the slide that mentioned that the VPN market alone today is larger than the entirety of all cloud security markets, defined broadly and loosely, and then rounded upwards. There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022.

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4 Best Antivirus Software of 2021

eSecurity Planet

With the rise in malware and ransomware and a growing reliance on the internet, antivirus solutions are critical for protecting your data and applications. Multi-layer ransomware protection. Virtual private network ( VPN ). Those protections include: AI- and behavioral-based threat detection. Ransomware protection.

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Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022

SecureList

On the very first day of the conflict (February 24, 2022), a massive wave of indiscriminate pseudo-ransomware and wiper attacks hit Ukrainian entities. Our assessment of the threat landscape in Ukraine in the first months of the war can be found on SecureList. Taking sides: professional ransomware groups, hacktivists, and DDoS attacks.

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