Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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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I have gathered here just a selection of the ransomware stories that have made the headlines – for these there are many more that go unreported in the media or even outside the organisation. ‘Lives are at stake’: hacking of US hospitals highlights deadly risk of ransomware | Hacking | …
Legitimate software vendors are always upgrading their offerings to give the user more features or a better experience. So we should not be surprised when threat actors who offer ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) or malware-as-a-service (MaaS) update their malicious software with new features, including ones to avoid detection and mitigation. Hive ransomware …
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Various departments of the US Government have issued a joint advisory about MedusaLocker ransomware as part of their #stopransomware initiative. #StopRansomware: MedusaLocker | CISA Knowledge of circulating ransomware malware helps all organisations and individuals respond to the threats, when organisations that have been compromised, delay reporting the attacks or even …
It is an accepted practice for software vendors to offer a bug bounty to people who discover a flaw in their software, and report it to them. The vendor can then, hopefully, fix the vulnerability before a threat actor can exploit it. Now the ransomware gangs are at it – …
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