Delinea has published its annual “State of Ransomware” report which shows that ransomware attacks are increasing again and reveals a change in strategy among cybercriminals. The familiar tactics of crippling a company and holding it hostage have been replaced by new strategies that use stealth to exfiltrate private and sensitiveRead More…
Sophos has released a report, titled “CryptoGuard: An Asymmetric Approach to the Ransomware Battle,” which found that some of the most prolific and active ransomware groups, including Akira, ALPHV/BlackCat, LockBit, Royal, Black Basta, are deliberately switching on remote encryption for their attacks. In remote encryption attacks, also known as remote ransomware, adversaries leverage a compromisedRead More…
By Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO EMEA and Lead Cybersecurity Technologist at Veeam Ransomware first rose to dominance as cybercriminals’ main weapon of choice way back in 2020. Since then, it has been top of the global security agenda, plaguing businesses, public services and individuals alike. Organisations have had to quicklyRead More…
Positive Technologies experts have presented a study of the Q3 2023 cybersecurity threatscape. The share of malware attacks remained unchanged from Q2 at 45%. The advent of decryption tools reduced the effect of encryption malware, causing its share to shrink. Ransomware gangs now threaten to publish stolen information without encrypting the compromisedRead More…
Sophos has shared findings from its sector survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Retail 2023,” which found that only 26% of retail organisations this past year were able to disrupt a ransomware attack before their data was encrypted. This is a three-year low for the sector—a decline from 34%Read More…
Nutanix has announced new features in the Nutanix Cloud Platform to strengthen organisations’ cyber resilience against ransomware attacks on unstructured data. These new features, available today in Nutanix Data Lens and Nutanix Unified Storage solutions, enable organisations to detect a threat, defend from further damage and begin a 1-click recoveryRead More…
Proofpoint has introduced industry-first innovations that address the top risks organizations face today—from business email compromise (BEC), the leading cause of financial loss for organizations, to ransomware and data exfiltration. The unified solutions, announced at Proofpoint Protect 2023, span the company’s Aegis Threat Protection, Identity Threat Defense and Sigma InformationRead More…
By Rick Vanover, Senior Director, Product Strategy, Veeam Ransomware attacks continue to grow in frequency. As well as being more common, ransomware is also getting more potent. As per Veeam’s 2023 Ransomware Trends Report 21% of companies paid the ransom but could not recover their data. The threat landscape is as volatileRead More…
Positive Technologies has analyzed the relevant cyberthreats of Q2 2023. According to the report, the number of targeted attacks increased by 10% since the beginning of the year, now standing at 78%. Experts noted large-scale attacks that exploited vulnerabilities and numerous leaks of users’ personal data. Furthermore, the period saw an increase in successful cyberattacks on blockchain projects and an upsurge in ransomware activityRead More…
ESET Research has released its analysis of Spacecolon, a small toolset used to deploy variants of Scarab ransomware to victims all over the world. It likely penetrates victim organizations through operators compromising vulnerable web servers or via brute forcing RDP credentials.Read More…
Sophos has released new findings into the connections between the most prominent ransomware groups this past year, including Royal, in its report, “Clustering Attacker Behavior Reveals Hidden Patterns.” Over the course of three months beginning in January 2023, Sophos X-Ops investigated four different ransomware attacks, one involving Hive, two byRead More…
Barracuda Networks published its fifth annual Threat Spotlight on ransomware. The new report looks at ransomware attack patterns that occurred between August 2022 and July 2023. An in-depth look at ransomware trends Barracuda researchers analysed 175 publicly reported successful ransomware attacks across the world between August 2022 and July 2023,Read More…
