Remember paying the ransom will not always bring back the data – take steps now

phishing email threat

If your back-up and incident response plan is completely useless, you could always fall back on just paying the ransom that the cyber criminals demand. A Sophos study showed 46% of businesses did this: Study: 90% of organizations say ransomware impacted their ability to operate | TechRepublic But this study …

Sophos report even government agencies can miss hackers in their network

Hacker spent nearly five months inside a US regional government network, downloading files, using software and deleting logs, before deploying Lockbit ransomware. Sophos recreated the attack from what was left of the logs and believe the attackers got in through a public facing remote desktop protocol (RDP) port – something …

More patches to check – Sophos firewalls

Check your Sophos firewalls are up to date – Sophos issued patches last week for a critical vulnerability in the software. The issue is with the Webadmin and Portal user interfaces.  Sophos fixes critical hijack flaw in firewall product • The Register