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REvil/Sodinokibi accounting for 73% of ransomware detections in Q2 2021
McAfee released a report which examines cybercriminal activity related to ransomware and cloud threats in the second quarter of 2021. With the shift to a more flexible …
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Patch management complexity increased by remote work is putting organizations at risk
71% of IT and security professionals found patching to be overly complex, cumbersome, and time consuming, an Ivanti survey reveals. In fact, 57% of respondents stated that …
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Researchers discover ransomware that encrypts virtual machines hosted on an ESXi hypervisor
Sophos has released details of a new ransomware written in Python that attackers used to compromise and encrypt virtual machines hosted on an ESXi hypervisor. The report …
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91.5% of malware arrived over encrypted connections during Q2 2021
The latest report from the WatchGuard shows an astonishing 91.5% of malware arriving over encrypted connections during Q2 2021. This is a dramatic increase over the previous …
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Large ransom demands and password-guessing attacks escalate
ESET released a report that summarizes key statistics from its detection systems and highlights notable examples of its cybersecurity research. The latest issue of the report …
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Nation-state attacks fears grow, execs don’t trust governments to protect them from cyber threats
Arctic Wolf published findings from a recent global survey of over 1,400 IT decision-makers at enterprise organizations. After a year of high-profile cyberattacks, the survey …
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Ransomware attacks on the rise – How to counter them?
In June 2012, Deloitte conducted an online survey of 50 C-suite and other executives about cyber threat detection and response and found that almost 87% of the pollees …
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Leveraging threat intelligence to tackle supply chain vulnerabilities
In this interview with Help Net Security, Brandon Hoffman, CISO at Intel 471, talks about the growing threat of supply chain attacks, the most common supply chain …
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Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations may have life-or-death consequences
Ponemon Institute surveyed 597 IT and IT security professionals to understand how COVID-19 has impacted how healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) protect patient care and …
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The biggest problem with ransomware is not encryption, but credentials
With each passing day, the threat of ransomware increases in frequency, sophistication, and effectiveness. What started as a simple annoyance scheme to collect a ransom has …
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Policy and patience key in Biden’s cybersecurity battle
Last month, President Biden hosted a group of technology and insurance executives to build support for a “whole-of-nation effort” to improve cybersecurity. The executive …
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U.S. Department of the Treasury announces set of actions to counter ransomware
As part of the whole-of-government effort to counter ransomware, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced a set of actions focused on disrupting criminal networks and …
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