Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 13, 2021

Operating the country’s largest refined products pipeline, Colonial Pipeline was brought to its knees over the weekend by a ransomware attack by cybercriminal gang, DarkSide. When the data coming in is slowed down, altered, or flooded (like with a denial of service attack), the results can cripple a critical resource.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The growth in ransomware attacks is to blame for the rapid premium hike. Taking Lloyds as an example, the UK-based insurer referred to cyber in its pre-2016 annual report as a “newer or less well understood sector”, mentioned in the same breath as “nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological (NCBR) threats”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 27, 2022

Next-generation cyberattacks are often summarized as ransomware, man-in-the-middle, brute-force, phishing, insider, or malware attacks. It’s no different than the fear of conventional warfare going nuclear. Anatomy of a Quantum Attack. Thu, 04/28/2022 - 06:15. But another, far more damaging, attack vector is looming – quantum attack.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 24, 2020

One of the types of malware that has had success recently is Ryuk, a type of ransomware that infiltrates a system and encrypts its data before demanding a payment in Bitcoin. Maze is a type of ransomware that was able to breach a US nuclear contractor and release sensitive data. This shows that anyone can be targeted.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This includes theft by cyber means including ransomware, ransoms demanded for not publicizing information obtained via data breaches and attacking the digital infrastructure of financial institutions.". An eighth category was added for the 2022 report that did not exist for the 2020 report. How the Cyber Project came to be.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We work with oil and gas, electricity, nuclear to some extent, water. And at times, their challenges are to get the resources they need to get everything done. I see the water attack as analogous to the ransomware attacks that have been happening to HMOs and smaller medical providers.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

While news of missile strikes is clear (the fake news a couple of years ago that Hawaii was under a nuclear attack notwithstanding), the details around such reports are not always accurate. Ransomware is a very likely form of attack, and no amount of ransom will guarantee that you get your data back. We’re all connected.

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Spinone

MARCH 10, 2019

There are constantly new headlines, blog posts, statistics, and other information pointing to the fact that security breaches, malware, ransomware, data leak events, phishing and other security concerns are not going away. Ransomware is arguably the most alarming trend in malicious software being used by attackers today.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Black Basta Ransomware Group has reportedly hit two electric utilities in North America in October this year and the attack took place after they compromised the email account of a government contractor in May 2022. The post Black Basta Ransomware hits two electric utilities in America appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 3, 2021

Secretary of State calls out Russia on ransomware attacks. That continued this week when Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with CNN Español to discuss the recent ransomware attacks that have affected U.S. Press Secretary sends different message on ransomware. White House memo to business leaders on ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 12, 2021

Is ransomware a national emergency? Just days before a ransomware attack shut down a crucial fuel pipeline in the U.S., leaders from around the world gave a stark assessment about ransomware: everything is at risk. Ransomware as a threat to critical infrastructure. Ransomware as a threat to critical infrastructure.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 3, 2021

Secretary of State calls out Russia on ransomware attacks. That continued this week when Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with CNN Español to discuss the recent ransomware attacks that have affected U.S. Press Secretary sends different message on ransomware. White House memo to business leaders on ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 4, 2021

The impact of recent ransomware attacks on vital infrastructure in the US has triggered a reaction from the US Attorney’s office. In an internal guidance it says that all ransomware investigations in the field should be centrally coordinated with a recently created task force in Washington. Ransomware Task Force.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Lockbit will continue to lead the pack Lockbit are currently the world’s most prolific ransomware group, which can be determined by looking at the activity levels on various groups’ data leak sites. Taking this approach allows the group to speed up the process of an attack, given destructive malware is less complicated than ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2023

There is no annual “how to avoid nuclear meltdown” day. Dispersing the responsibility like this created an enormous headache that has consumed untold resources. Malwarebytes removes all remnants of ransomware and prevents you from getting reinfected. This is bad. It is the bedrock on which security is built.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2022

However, cyberthreats against vital US infrastructure have been a concern for years, not least since Stuxnet successfully compromised nuclear centrifuges in Iran more than a decade ago. For example, a ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline in 2021 caused it to halt operations for six days. ICS attacks—scary, but very hard to do.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It's designed to be robust to withstand a nuclear war. But that's when you can see the damage that they could do the same thing with ransomware, was the same thing with IoT malware, you know, DDoS attack. Vamosi: The internet. I call it the money factor right there might be a threat. But then you can monetize it.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2020

Fortunately, no case of healthcare sabotage by intelligence agencies or hackers has come to light (the closest has been a series of ransomware attacks extorting money from hospitals, causing significant data breaches and interruptions in medical services). But other critical infrastructure has often been a target.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ransomware, for example, usually doesn’t self-replicate. Finally, it could even act as a backdoor through which hackers could gain remote access to the infected machine’s resources. Stuxnet was designed to disrupt Iran’s nuclear facilities, in an apparent attempt to slow the country’s progress on developing an atomic bomb.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The most severe financial damage has occurred as a result of ransomware activity. Group-IB: The ransomware plague cost the world over $1 billion. Late 2019 and all of 2020 were marked by an unprecedented surge in ransomware attacks. Ransomware operators buy access and then encrypt devices on the network.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This does not mean actors are not actively seeking to up their technological impact, including aggressively pursuing ransomware methods. Simultaneously, however, we have seen some indication that Iran is conducting more aggressive operations designed to disrupt their target's networks and day-to-day operations, including through ransomware.".

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

With companies grappling with limited resources and a widening talent gap, a tool like ChatGPT could simplify certain labor-intensive tasks and give defenders back valuable time to commit to higher-level strategic thinking. Malwarebytes EDR and MDR removes all remnants of ransomware and prevents you from getting reinfected.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Due to their asymmetrical nature, offensive cyber-capabilities have been embraced by many countries that wouldn’t otherwise have the resources to compete on a military or economic level with the most powerful nations of the world. A similar incident happened in Kiev for about one hour on December 16, 2016.

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