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Cl0p Ransomware Gang Tries to Topple the House of Cards
When I wrote the introduction for our recent report Organizations at Risk: Ransomware Attackers Don’t Take Holidays, I described current factors and trends with the potential to disrupt the upcoming holiday season. ...
Ransomware Whack-a-Mole
Pretty much everyone is familiar with the carnival game Whack-a-Mole. No matter how many moles you bash with the mallet, it seems like two more pop up in its place. It’s commonly ...
NOBELIUM Demonstrates Why Microsoft Is the Weakest Link
Microsoft platforms and products are ubiquitous. Government agencies and companies of all sizes and industries around the world rely on Microsoft software to get things done. They are also riddled with security ...
Microsoft OneDrive Used for Ransom Operations
Microsoft was called out recently after it was discovered that hundreds of malware files commonly used to launch Conti ransomware attacks are being hosted from their OneDrive cloud storage service. The news ...
Ransomware: The Global Cybersecurity Pandemic
I am sitting in Paris this week at the Les Asis conference, but my mind is also on Biden’s ransomware summit as ransomware took center stage again this week. No, not because ...
If You Prevent Ransomware You Don’t Need to Recover from It
I started Cybereason to help defenders protect their networks and data against attacks—to use what I know about how cybercriminals think and how adversaries work to give defenders an advantage against all ...
1,460-Day Old Known Vulnerability Catches Microsoft Off Guard
Vulnerabilities are a fact of life. I started my career in cybersecurity finding and exploiting those vulnerabilities to conduct nation-state offensive operations. I understand the simple reality that there is no such ...
Grief Gang’s New Quadruple Extortion Scheme Doesn’t Change the Game
Imagine heading to work on a Monday morning. You stop at Starbucks on the way in for a little caffeine jumpstart. Traffic was bad—as usual, but you’ve seen worse. You sit down ...
Microsoft Zero-Day-of-the-Month Club
When it comes to zero day attacks against Microsoft products, I often feel like Bill Murray’s character in the movie Groundhog Day. It seems like I keep waking up to the same ...
Microsoft Vulnerability Exposes Thousands to Risk…Again
I can’t deny that Microsoft competes with Cybereason, but the truth is, I owe a lot of the success of Cybereason to Microsoft. After all, the lion’s share of what we do ...