CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This year, organizations have spent significant time and resources attempting to mitigate the risks associated with Business Communication Compromise, including phishing attacks and Personally-Identifiable Information leakages. Below are my top 5 predictions for Business Communication Compromise in 2023. Looking Ahead.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It’s a time that I like to reflect on the year gone by and think about the potential for the new year. Things like AI / ML, cloud computing, the cybersecurity skills gap, and ransomware are not really predictions but instead blatantly obvious. Ransomware as a threat is already established and well known.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) is wreaking havoc on critical infrastructure around the world, causing businesses large and small to take major financial hits up to $15 million. federal agencies have banded together to issue a joint cybersecurity advisory statement about BlackMatter, a RaaS tool cybercriminals have been using to profit.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Spending money you hadn’t budgeted to hire experts to clean up an unexpected mess is at the bottom of every manager’s wish list, but in the case of a cyber attack as damaging as ransomware , turning incident response over to a pro may be the best thing you can do. Minimize downtime. Lack of expertise. Reduce liability.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Cybersecurity professionals are inundated with conversations, statistics, and news stories about the threats of ransomware every day. But what can organizations do to effectively mitigate the threats of ransomware? The root of ransomware attacks and preparing for the worst. The same thing with ransomware.".

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The REvil ransomware group's "Happy Blog" where it publishes stolen data, suddenly went offline. What had happened to the group and its DarkSide associates accused of the Colonial Pipeline and JBS Meat ransomware attacks? Over the weekend, this led to an incredible amount of complaining by ransomware operators. led hacking.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We can all agree on one thing: Cybersecurity is definitely witnessing a moment in the news. From ransomware to the social media power outage, our news feeds are already full to the brim and this is just the beginning of October. About last night ?????????? October 5, 2021. October 5, 2021. March 14, 2021.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 29, 2023

As important as it is, cybersecurity awareness training might not seem like the most exciting thing in the world, but when it involves plots to rival your favourite network crime dramas, expertly crafted cinematography, and characters to root for? You think this is about money?

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Trojans like Emotet and Agent Tesla can infiltrate deep into your organization, silently stealing sensitive information, while ransomware like LockBit can bring your entire business to a sudden, grinding halt. To defend against them, organizations need to think about the tools and practices that will pay dividends throughout their network.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

Ransomware attack rates will continue upward due to the malware’s ease of use combined with increased anonymity afforded by some cryptocurrencies. Their attacks are usually low-skill and low-resource, such as using social engineering (phishing) for fraudulent redirects to malicious websites. Ransomware Groups.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Ransomware burnout might be creeping in for many cybersecurity professionals, but cybercrime organizations do not show any signs of slowing down, according to a new report. Treasury Department released its Financial Trend Analysis report on Friday, providing the lay of the land when it comes to ransomware in the first two quarters of 2021.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Ransomware has brutally impacted critical infrastructure worldwide and now Canada is currently experiencing cyberattacks that are doing the same. Real estate developer, Ronmor Holdings, confirms it was a victim of REvil, the notorious ransomware gang. SecureWorld News breaks down what we know about these alleged ransomware attacks.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Understanding how things are shifting in the forest, or overall threat landscape, can help us categorize, strategize, and prioritize our resources. More on these things in a minute. Ransomware. We can't look at all of these categories, but let's talk about the number one cyber attack threat of malware.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

One common type of cybersecurity issue organizations face is ransomware. Here is more information about leakware and some strategies companies can leverage to protect themselves from these attacks. Leakware is a potent, dangerous form of ransomware that emerged in 2019. What is leakware? Cybersecurity needs to be a team effort.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This includes the fight against ransomware. His unique insights around cybersecurity-related topics shine a light on ransomware risk for organizations, government agencies, and the public. The Secret Service and the ransomware battle. With the ongoing surge in ransomware attacks, Sheridan says the impacts are growing.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

December 9 th was when things really started getting public attention and the first patch was released by Apache. Then we started seeing exploits and certain odd things popping up. But overall, the number of customers calling us about Log4J over the holidays was fairly light. This application is inside a lot of things.

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McAfee

MARCH 9, 2021

In a Security Operations Center (SOC) this resource is serving as a progressive framework for practitioners to make sense of the behaviors (techniques) leading to system intrusions on enterprise networks. So what is this “efficacy” thing all about? MITRE ATT&CK enterprise is a “knowledge base of adversarial techniques ”.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And let's not forget about the impact on finding and retaining talent; or layoffs that occur, pushing remaining resources (people) to the limit. Educate employees about cybersecurity Employees are often the first line of defense against cyberattacks. 6 + 3 = 9, but so does 5 + 4. According to Forbes , the U.K.’s

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2021

However, the first-generation of SD-WAN solutions were notable for one key thing: they were solely focused on improving connectivity and did little to account for security. This includes datacenters, branch offices, cloud resources and mobile devices. A paradigm shift in fundamental network architecture is sorely needed. •Use

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

About 25% of all data breaches are caused by human error. Here’s an example of how a phishing email can spread ransomware through your network: The cost of a data breach can be very high, and preventing phishing attacks helps your business to avoid financial and reputational damages.

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McAfee

MAY 11, 2020

I seem to have spent a fair amount of my time recently talking to a variety of people about “zero days” and the one thing that has really struck me is that almost everyone has a different view on what a “zero day” actually is….so so I figured the time had come to try and add a little clarity to the situation.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Although examples of severe compromise remain largely hypothetical, there have been several real-world attacks from energy infrastructure in Ukraine to water plants in Florida to underline that if things went south, it could happen very suddenly. Often it takes multiple types of traffic to build a decision about what a device is.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Being struck by ransomware has been compared to having a heart attack. What advice would she give to anyone worried about this threat? When a customer engages with us during a ransomware attack, it’s always a chaotic situation where the client’s ability to conduct business has completely stopped.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

As part of the symposium, Doug Levin, K12 SIX national director, and president of EdTech Strategies and the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, revealed troubling findings from his newly published report, “ The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2020 Year in Review.”. It was all about ‘all hands on deck.’

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There is no question—we have seen a few unprecedented cyberattacks in 2021 with the rise of ransomware. Apps and software, when not designed with proper threat modelling, can lead to bad things for a business and the consumers. Share your feedback in the comments below about how your business is addressing those weaknesses.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. The page can have any type of design: we have seen a request from a large bank in one case and a message about a search for COVID-19-infected individuals in another.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In fact, many threat actors will reuse certain patterns or resources which allows us to make connections with previous incidents. We didn’t think much of it until in July Eric Brandel tweeted about a skimmer he called ‘checkcheck’ that was using some interesting new features and was essentially the same thing we had found.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

Although concerns about the pandemic still exist, many people will now be contemplating a tentative return to the office. There are many things to consider for cybersecurity teams when protecting a hybrid working environment, but these are our top five: . Additional Resources. Featured: .

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Here are some data breach prevention and response practices that have stood the test of time, followed by a reference list of some vendor resources that can help you improve your own cybersecurity and incident response capabilities. The more aware your team is of popular attack methods and strains of ransomware , the more you can prepare.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2022

The goal is to automate everything that can be automated, enabling the carbon (you know, humans) to focus on the things that suit them best. Strive to streamline the operational motions (as associated playbooks) over time, as things change and as you learn what works in your environment. Will we get there by 2025? Or course not.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2021

Latency and performance continue to be important, but also being able to protect employee devices in all locations and providing access to only authorized resources. But to be clear, networks will look much different in 5 - 7 years. Ransomware wasn’t a thing. AWS was in its early days, and Azure and GCP weren’t things.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

With KMaaS, the responsibility of managing and securing the keys is taken care of by experts, allowing your security team to focus on core business activities without worrying about the security and integrity of your data. Data Security Krishna Ksheerabdhi | VP, Product Marketing More About This Author > Schema

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Microsoft’s Office 365 public cloud is an extremely popular and feature-rich cloud offering that provides numerous capabilities to businesses wanting to migrate resources from on-premises to the public cloud. So many businesses choose to migrate to the public cloud and totally forget to think about data protection in the public cloud.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

There are three reasons for that (you can read about them in our article Office 365 On-Premises vs. Cloud Backup ). In this article, we will tell you about six different tools, both free and paid, that you can use to back up your business data. These investments are not obvious, but necessary to make things work.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It also requires a large and representative set of knowledge about cyberattacks, threat actors and associated tools over an extended timeframe. No organization in the world can claim to have limitless cybersecurity resources and be able to prevent or stop every kind of threat! But how are those IOCs identified and gathered?

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Identity IQ

APRIL 12, 2023

Malware and ransomware. Ransomware blocks an employer’s access to its data via encryption, and the employer will have to pay a ransom to access it. Communicate with Your IT Department When it comes to data security, treat your IT department as a resource. Use them to learn about data security and raise any questions or concerns.

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