Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Fall back and use your ransomware resilient back-up to recover your encrypted information – and hope that your data classification and segregation has protected your most sensitive information from exfiltration and exposure in the public domain. Or you could hope that the Dutch police have recovered the ransomware decryption key …
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It is not possible to forget ransomware, just this week our engineers have updated a client’s back-up to one that is ransomware compliant – meaning, among other things, that the threat actors cannot access and so encrypt or alter the back-up during their attacks. Up to this point the client …
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There are a rush of ransomware stories on Bleeping computers, mainly high profile organisations being hit, not only with crypto-malware but being blackmailed over data exfiltrated by the threat actors. Automotive supplier breached by 3 ransomware gangs in 2 weeks (bleepingcomputer.com) Hacker uses new RAT malware in Cuba Ransomware attacks …
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The prolific cyber criminal gang, LockBit, have released screens shots apparently showing that they have stolen 100GB of data from the Agenzia delle Entrate, or the Italian Government Tax Department. At the moment only a small sample of the data has been made public by LockBit, to convince the Italian …
It gives the threat actors a chance to check on victim’s exploited vulnerabilities, see who pays when infected by ransomware and other useful bits of information if you plan to maximise your cyber criminal profits. Experts concerned about ransomware groups creating searchable databases of victim data – The Record by …
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A new strain of malware/ransomware has been discovered by the MalwareHunterTeam – who have Tweeted out details and images. The ransomware is being called RedAlert, or N13V, and target Windows and Linux VMWare ESXi servers. New RedAlert Ransomware targets Windows, Linux VMware ESXi servers (bleepingcomputer.com) Double extortion Similar to other …
Another big company has been targeted by – the RansomHouse ransomware gang claims to have stolen 450GB of company data. RansomHouse gang claims to have some stolen AMD data • The Register AMD investigates RansomHouse hack claims, theft of 450GB data (bleepingcomputer.com)
