While October is designated as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, focusing on keeping your company and customers safe should be a constant priority, especially with the growing number and sophistication of ransomware attacks worldwide. As companies interact more digitally with customers and end-users, their attack surface increases, presenting more opportunities for would-be … [Read more...] about Ransomware Taxonomy: Four Scenarios Companies Should Safeguard Against
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The XDR Solution to the Ransomware Problem
During a ransomware attack, it is critical to detect and respond early and quickly. By decreasing your mean time to detection in identifying the attacker’s behavior, your security team can quickly investigate and respond timely to prevent a ransomware incident. And, if you can interrupt the attacker’s tools, tactics, or techniques early in the process that will force most … [Read more...] about The XDR Solution to the Ransomware Problem
Ransomware Group FIN12 Aggressively Going After Healthcare Targets
An "aggressive" financially motivated threat actor has been identified as linked to a string of RYUK ransomware attacks since October 2018, while maintaining close partnerships with TrickBot-affiliated threat actors and using a publicly available arsenal of tools such as Cobalt Strike Beacon payloads to interact with victim networks. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant attributed the … [Read more...] about Ransomware Group FIN12 Aggressively Going After Healthcare Targets
Simply Explained: Ransomware, Phishing, Zero Trust
Cybersecurity affects all of us, but the industry uses complicated terms that make it hard to understand. For example, what is ransomware and how does it work? What does phishing mean? Or zero trust? Let’s discuss these cyber concepts in simple, everyday language. And let’s cover what the good guys are doing to make our online lives safer. What’s ransomware? Imagine if you … [Read more...] about Simply Explained: Ransomware, Phishing, Zero Trust
Russian Ransomware Group REvil Back Online After 2-Month Hiatus
The operators behind the REvil ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) staged a surprise return after a two-month hiatus following the widely publicized attack on technology services provider Kaseya on July 4. Two of the dark web portals, including the gang's Happy Blog data leak site and its payment/negotiation site, have resurfaced online, with the most recent victim added on July 8, … [Read more...] about Russian Ransomware Group REvil Back Online After 2-Month Hiatus
LockFile Ransomware Bypasses Protection Using Intermittent File Encryption
A new ransomware family that emerged last month comes with its own bag of tricks to bypass ransomware protection by leveraging a novel technique called "intermittent encryption." Called LockFile, the operators of the ransomware has been found exploiting recently disclosed flaws such as ProxyShell and PetitPotam to compromise Windows servers and deploy file-encrypting malware … [Read more...] about LockFile Ransomware Bypasses Protection Using Intermittent File Encryption
How to protect yourself from ransomware: five tips
Recent years have seen ransomware grow from an abstract curiosity into a major problem anyone can face — and that hundreds of thousands of people already have. Now a mass industry, ransomware even shows a division of labor, with some criminals writing malicious code and others selecting targets and using the code to infect them, earning a percentage of the ransom. In the past … [Read more...] about How to protect yourself from ransomware: five tips
Cybercrime Group Asking Insiders for Help in Planting Ransomware
A Nigerian threat actor has been observed attempting to recruit employees by offering them to pay $1 million in bitcoins to deploy Black Kingdom ransomware on companies' networks as part of an insider threat scheme. "The sender tells the employee that if they're able to deploy ransomware on a company computer or Windows server, then they would be paid $1 million in bitcoin, or … [Read more...] about Cybercrime Group Asking Insiders for Help in Planting Ransomware
Researchers Find New Evidence Linking Diavol Ransomware to TrickBot Gang
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about an early development version of a nascent ransomware strain called Diavol that has been linked to threat actors behind the infamous TrickBot syndicate. The latest findings from IBM X-Force show that the ransomware sample shares similarities to other malware that has been attributed to the cybercrime gang, thus establishing … [Read more...] about Researchers Find New Evidence Linking Diavol Ransomware to TrickBot Gang
Threat Protection: The REvil Ransomware
The REvil ransomware family has been in the news due to its involvement in high-profile incidents, such as the JBS cyberattack and the Kaseya supply chain attack. Yet this threat carries a much more storied history, with varying functionality from one campaign to the next. The threat actors behind REvil attacks operate under a ransomware-as-a-service model. In this type of … [Read more...] about Threat Protection: The REvil Ransomware