As the U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving, let's give thanks for this cybercrime karma: For more than two years, law enforcement and security experts have been exploiting flaws in the crypto-locking malware to help victims decrypt their systems without paying a ransom.
ReliaQuest customers have tailored Digital Shadows' threat intelligence to their organizations to ensure conversations about their brands or products are being captured, says CEO Brian Murphy. The security operations firm says the Digital Shadows deal has fortified its detection and response muscle.
From data theft to ransomware, the financial sector is a natural target for cyber-attacks. Unorganized, uncoordinated or siloed security activities make it difficult to provide answers to the many questions posed by business leaders and stakeholders, nor can they give them confidence in their readiness.
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Convergence of the threat landscape looms large for defenders, and Cybercrime as a Service potentially will enable more destructive attacks at scale. These are among the 2023 threat landscape predictions of Derek Manky of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs. He shares these and other insights.
In 2022, 56% of lower education organizations and 64% of higher education organizations were hit by ransomware in the last year.
This is a considerable increase from the 44% of education respondents that reported an attack in our 2021 survey (based on 499 respondents across lower and higher education).
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The rise in successful ransomware attacks is part of an increasingly challenging threat environment that has affected organizations across all sectors, including state and local government.
In this report 58% of local government organizations were hit by ransomware in 2021, up from 34% in 2020.
This is a 70%...
According to the Australian 2021 OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches report, the healthcare industry alone has been the single most breached sector in Australia, experiencing 19% of all breaches between January to June that year.
Given the sensitivity of the information available with healthcare providers, they are no...
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses how Australian health insurer Medibank is deliberating on whether to pay a ransom to extortionists, analyzes the growing number of layoffs in the security vendor space, and shares a tribute to threat intelligence researcher Vitali Kremez.
Tributes are being paid to Vitali Kremez, who has died at the age of 34 in a suspected scuba-diving accident. The renowned threat intelligence expert, born in Belarus, had long tracked Russian cybercrime syndicates and was part of an ad hoc group established to counter ransomware and help victims.
The Defender’s Advantage Cyber Snapshot report delivers insights into today’s top cyber defense topics based on Mandiant frontline observations and real-world experience.
Download Issue 2 for a deep-dive into these five critical areas:
Disinformation campaigns and the threats they pose to organizations,...
High-profile attacks and unprecedented cyber activity over the past several months have elevated the criticality of threat visibility for security teams and raised the value of integrating threat intelligence into security operations. Taming the volume and complexity of attacks requires a structured approach to make...
Recent ransomware and phishing attacks have heightened the need for identity security for insurance companies who own financial information, social security numbers and health data for their customers. In today’s digital world, insurance companies must get identity right, and getting it right means ensuring that...
Today's IT and security professionals manage distributed endpoints while supporting digital transformation initiatives, cloud migrations and a distributed workforce. Needless to say, they're stretched thin.
It's time to re-evaluate one's approach to endpoint security, but there's a lot of noise in the market. Cut...
The Google-Mandiant marriage will combine Google's security monitoring tools with Mandiant's threat intel and attack surface management solutions, plus new SOAR and file and URL analyzer capabilities, to create an "end-to-end threat intelligence and cybersecurity operations suite."
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