Ransomware Demands continue to rise as Data Exfiltration becomes common, and Maze subdues
Ransomware attacks in Q3 2020 were marked by a larger reliance on stolen data. During the quarter, Maze sunset their operations while Ryuk restarted their campaign ... Read More
State and Local Cybersecurity: Defending Our Communities from Cyber Threats Amid COVID-19
Read Coveware’s prepared testimony on defending state and local organizations from ransomware ... Read More
Ransomware Attacks Fracture Between Enterprise and Ransomware-as-a-Service in Q2 as Demands Increase
During the first quarter of 2020 ransomware threat actors took advantage of the economic and workplace disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. A proliferation of new variants were observed as some regular ransomware types began to fade. Read on! ... Read More
Managed Service Providers: Still Not Appreciating the Risk of Ransomware
Ransomware attacks against MSPs increase the blast radius of the attack to every downstream client endpoint. We coordinated a survey with NinjaRMM to determine if MSPs are considering this risk correctly ... Read More
Ransomware Payments Up 33% As Maze and Sodinokibi Proliferate in Q1 2020
During the first quarter of 2020 ransomware threat actors took advantage of the economic and workplace disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. A proliferation of new variants were observed as some regular ransomware types began to fade. Read on! ... Read More
Free Ransomware Help for Coronavirus Healthcare Providers
Coveware has teamed up with Emsisoft to offer free assistance to any frontline healthcare organization hit with ransomware during the Coronavirus pandemic ... Read More
Ransomware Costs Double in Q4 as Ryuk, Sodinokibi Proliferate
Ransom demands more than doubled between Q3 and Q4 of 2019, as multiple variants gained broader distribution amongst enterprises large and small ... Read More
The Marriage of Data Exfiltration and Ransomware
Ransomware and Data Exfiltration are being combined to further complicate the lives of victims. How will this new development shake out? ... Read More
How the Ransomware Economy Has Grown
The ransomware cyber extortion economy has exploded over the last 2 years. How did we get here so fast? ... Read More
Phantom Incident Scam Threatens Release of Corporate PII
Several new types of Phantom Incident Scams are trying to extort victims based on old social engineering tricks. Don’t fall for these social engineering schemes ... Read More
