Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions, released its third-annual threat research report on Ransomware. The new report looks at Ransomware attack patterns that occurred between August 2020 and July 2021. Barracuda researchers identified and analysed 121 ransomware incidents that occurred between August 2020 and July 2021, and sawRead More…
Renee Tarun, Deputy CISO/ Vice President Information Security, Fortinet, elaborates on the top nine things to keep in mind inorder to prevent ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks have become a massive problem for almost every industry and every organization size. In the U.S., federal officials have called it one of theRead More…
A recent survey by IDC found that more than one third of organizations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data in the previous 12 months. And for those that fell victim to ransomware, it is not uncommon to have experienced multiple ransomwareRead More…
According to the latest update from Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report, 1H 2021, the average ransomware payment climbed 82% since 2020 to a record $570,000 in the first half of 2021, as cybercriminals employed increasingly aggressive tactics to coerce organizations into paying larger ransoms.Read More…
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published new research, “Trash Panda as a Service: Raccoon Stealer Steals Cookies, Cryptocoins and More,” detailing how a stealer disguised as pirated software grabs cryptocurrencies and information while dropping malicious content, such as cryptominers, on targeted systems.Read More…
With the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic, ‘remote working’ has been the “new normal” for all of us. With more people using personal devices for work, companies going through sudden digital transformation and moving data to the cloud, which has led to the increase in number of cyber-attacks sinceRead More…
Infoblox has published its Quarterly Cyberthreat Intelligence Report for Q2 2021. This report includes the company’s publicly released threat intelligence from April 1, 2021, through June 30, 2021. Ransomware is once again front and center in the quarterly threat report. This year has turned out to be one of theRead More…
Babur Nawaz Khan, Technical Marketing Engineer at A10 Networks elaborates on the major cyber threats. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, cyber criminals saw their opportunity, and they took it. With corporate offices, government agencies, schools, and universities shifting from in-person to remote work models, and even many healthcare interactions movingRead More…
