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The New Realities of Ransomware

| | Colonial Pipeline, DisruptOps, JBS, Ransomware, Securosis
Alan Shimel and Mike Rothman from Securosis and DisruptOps talk Colonial Pipeline, JBS and all things ransomware. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone ...
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Critical Infrastructure Attacks Spur Cybersecurity Investment

| | Colonial Pipeline, Critical Infrastructure, JBS, Ransomware
The attacks on critical industrial systems such as Colonial Pipeline last year pushed industrial cybersecurity to center stage. And with the threat of war between Russia and Ukraine, experts warned nations that ...
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Cyberattacks in 2021 Highlighted Critical Infrastructure Risks

| | Colonial Pipeline, Critical Infrastructure, JBS, Kaseya, Oldsmar, Ransomware
Concerns regarding cyberattacks against critical infrastructure have elevated industrial control systems (ICS) security to a mainstream topic. The first half of the year saw an increase in vulnerabilities found in ICS, exposing ...
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Protecting Critical Infrastructure with Automation and Zero-Trust

| | Colonial Pipeline, Critical Infrastructure, JBS, Oldsmar, Ransomware
Politicians on the Homeland Security Committee have recently presented a bill for review which would require critical infrastructure organizations to report data breaches and ransomware payments to the federal government. This comes ...
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Victims Feel Paying Ransom is Their Only Option

| | Colonial Pipeline, cybercriminals, JBS, Ransom, Ransomware
By now it is no surprise that ransomware is the favored method of cyberattackers, but it’s still startling that 64% of organizations have been the victim to such an attack—of those, 84% ...
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REvil Returns With Fresh Attacks, New Representative

| | JBS, Kaseya Attacks, Ransomware, REvil ransomwaare
Just a few months ago, the REvil ransomware group seemed to be everywhere—in a frenetic burst of activity the group’s crime spree included attacks on the likes of JBS, Travelex and Kaseya ...
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Ransomware Attackers Don’t Take Holidays

Ransomware Attackers Don’t Take Holidays

| | Anti-Ransomware, Colonial Pipeline, cyberattack, Cybersecurity, education, Endpoint Controls, endpoint detection and response, Endpoint Protection Platform, Howard University, JBS, Next Generation Antivirus, RansomOps, Ransomware, Unified Endpoint Security
Not everyone took time off for Labor Day weekend. While millions of Americans enjoyed an extended weekend in honor of the holiday, cybercriminals were busy targeting Howard University with a ransomware attack ...
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The Second Wave of a Ransomware Pandemic

| | Colonial Pipeline, Cyberwarfare, JBS, Kaseya REvil, Ransomware
In January, we published the Ransomware Pandemic, a report discussing the ever-evolving threat of ransomware and the growing devastation disseminated by these malicious malware strains. The report discussed the future forecast for ...
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Cyber Security Roundup for July 2021

Cyber Security Roundup for July 2021

| | Bitcoin, cyber security roundup, Darkside, Data breach, Ikea, JBS, mcafee, Microsoft, patching, Ransomware, rEvil, zero-day
    A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, June 2021.How was UK Government Building CCTV Leaked?The Sun newspaper ...
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Report: Ransomware Attacks and the True Cost to Business

Report: Ransomware Attacks and the True Cost to Business

| | Analyst Report, Anti-Ransomware, CISO, Colonial Pipeline, cryptocurrency, cyber insurance, cybercrime, Cybereason, Cybereason Defense Platform, Cybersecurity, Darkside, Double Extortion, EDR, endpoint detection and response, Endpoint Protection Platform, enterprise security, EPP, Incident Response, JBS, legislation, Multi-Stage Ransomware, national security, Next Generation Antivirus, Operation-Centric Security, RansomOps, Ransomware, research, ResearchCat, ResourcesCat, rEvil, risk management, Russia, secops, security, Security Controls, security policy, Sodinokibi, Threat Intelligence, Unified Endpoint Security
Ransomware attacks have continued to make headlines, and for good reason: on average, there is a new ransomware attack every 11 seconds, and the losses to organizations from ransomware attacks is projected ...
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