Ransomware the threat and the attacks – you need to make sure your cyber security game is up to the job of protecting your organisation.

As you have read ransomware has been in the news for because one of the major ransomware gangs, BlackCat/ALPHV updated and expanded its capability to carry out the double extortion tactic and because another major ransomware player LockBit suffered an insider attack of its own:

The ups and downs of ransomware software development

The threat actors are also changing their delivery systems to evade the current detection and anti-virus systems and this one is going to distribute the new improved BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware:

Emotet botnet now pushes Quantum and BlackCat ransomware (bleepingcomputer.com)

The big companies that get hit and impact many customers always make the news – but when a small organisation gets hit, it will not make the international news but if it is your organisation that opens that malicious email and gets infected, then you will have to deal with it!

New York ambulance service discloses data breach after ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com)

Hive ransomware claims attack on New York Racing Association (bleepingcomputer.com)

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