Dain Drake was CEO of a steel fabrication factory. In June 2019, Drake found himself standing outside a closed adult boutique in Houston at 10:00 a.m. on a Sunday. He called the owner and pleaded for him to come. He needed something inside, which might just save his business - from ransomware.
A Texas nonprofit, safety net medical center is still struggling to fully bring its communications and other systems back online two weeks after a ransomware attack in which cybercriminals have demanded a ransom in the "tens of millions of dollars.
The U.S. government accused Iran of turning a blind eye to ransomware hackers after indicting three men affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Authorities say their attacks affected critical infrastructure including healthcare centers, transportation services and utility providers.
Ransomware-wielding criminals feel the need for speed as they seek to take down victims more quickly and quietly. Cue the use of intermittent, or partial, encryption to speed up attacks. It scrambles files partially but enough to make them unusable.
Invoice fraud. Payroll diversion. Gift card requests. Fraudulent wire transfers. Malicious attachments. These types of attacks have dominated the cybersecurity space for the past few years, as security leaders worldwide attempt to find ways to stop increasingly-sophisticated inbound threats.
But what about those...
After an international law enforcement operation shuttered stolen data forum RaidForums in February, one of its power users launched a replacement called Breached. Within months, the English-language forum has amassed more stolen records and nearly as many users as its predecessor.
The only surprising aspect of the ransomware attack against Los Angeles Unified School District is that it didn’t happen sooner. The district was warned of cybersecurity weaknesses in the 20 months leading up to its ransomware attack. The Vice Society gang has claimed credit.
Who's been disrupting ransomware operations' data leak sites by targeting them with distributed denial-of-service attacks? No one has yet claimed credit for the ongoing disruptions and slowdowns, but one likely theory is that rival operations are attempting to cause each other pain.
Ransomware’s main goal is to spread. This eBook helps to stop that spread.
Everyone — federal governments, large enterprises, and healthcare organizations — likes talking about preventing ransomware. Segmenting your network prevents lateral movement.
Still, the ransomware threat remains steady. That’s...
Akamai conducted a detailed study of the victims and masterminds behind the world’s leading RaaS (ransomware as a service) organizations, with a focus on 2021’s highest-grossing ransomware group — Conti.
This special report compiles Conti’s most popular tools and techniques so businesses can gain critical...
CISO Marcin Szczepanik recalls when his team's budget was cut dramatically after the onset of the pandemic. He wanted to invest in the latest state-of-the-art tools but prioritized his costs and focused on email security - a move that improved the company's level of cyber maturity.
Co-founder and CEO Bipul Sinha has grown Rubrik's business with existing customers by more than 40% thanks to the company's unique take on data observability. The data security vendor has emphasized data availability and resiliency in the face of crippling ransomware and extortion-based attacks.
The Labor Day weekend ransomware attack on the Los Angeles Unified School District is drawing serious attention from the U.S. government, which has sent the FBI. The attack vector is unknown, but nearly two dozen compromised district accounts appeared on the dark web in the months before the attack.
The NFL's San Francisco 49ers will notify more than 20,000 Americans that online attackers likely stole their name and Social Security number from the sports franchise's corporate network in a February network security incident. Ransomware-as-a-service group BlackByte took credit for the attack.
Chile's national consumer protection agency was hit by a ransomware attack affecting online services and containing indicators connecting the malware with the Conti ransomware-as-a-service group. A government official says national policy is not to pay ransoms.
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