Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
In the first part of this article on how ransomware has changed, we looked at the actual attacks, today we are going to look at ransomware payments. Ransomware. Pay up? In the early days of ransomware, paying for the decryption key was an option. Although back then most people who …
Ransomware is probably the most well known of the modern cyber security threats, regularly making the mainstream press when high profile organisations and/or large numbers of users are compromised by the actions of cyber-criminals (BBC News, 2025). When ransomware began… I can remember the first time we had to deal …
Once ransomware gets into an organisation, usually through some type of phishing attack, that organisation will have a problem that will cost it money and will damage its reputation. So, anything that makes it easier for ransomware attacks to flourish and increase has to be bad news for every organisation …
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This is a really interesting blog from Microsoft examining cyber crime from the prospective of a law abiding real world economic model: Ransomware-as-a-service: Understanding the cybercrime gig economy and how to protect yourself – Microsoft Security Blog Cyber-gangs have been shaping themselves as real businesses for a while, with business …
When breaking into a computer system cost significant money and resources, only a few capable individuals and groups did it. Now with the availability of cloud services and mass distribution the best resourced cyber gangs are turning to a gig economy model, combined with the IT “as-a-service” model to sell …
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