Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
As cyber security professionals come to understand the current ransomware threat and vendors and MSPs provide services and training to deal with the threat – the threat actors will always change their tactics. Here is one of the latest – using torrents to extract data from compromised systems: Clop ransomware …
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Yesterday I wrote the opening chapter of this defence-in-depth article – I looked at how anti-virus protection can be side-stepped by threat actors and that staff cyber awareness training is needed to provide another layer to your defences. That was a human addition to your defence-in-depth and today we are …
Ransomware has evolved as the potential victims have taken steps to protect themselves. Ransomware – One First there was malware to encrypt your information, then a payment demand for the decryption key. In the days when businesses thought that a backup was a luxury, this was a real money maker …
I have not been talking about ransomware as much recently – but it has not gone away – ask Estée Lauder: Estée Lauder beauty giant breached by two ransomware gangs (bleepingcomputer.com) Follow the Money Hackers do t for money. Research from the cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis shows that victims have …
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The trusted anti-virus and cyber security company Sophos is being impersonated by a threat actor, who have taken the name SophosEncrypt. Cybersecurity firm Sophos impersonated by new SophosEncrypt ransomware (bleepingcomputer.com) Their aim to get their ransomware onto your computers. Two takeaways from this: If the offer looks too good to …
