To cover your company in the event of a ransomware or other attack, cyber insurance specifically protects your business in the event of losses from ransom, data, and clients. Should you pay the ransom? The consensus on whether to pay attackers is clear: security and law enforcement agencies...
December 11, 2024 Reading time: 6 minutes The digital landscape has become increasingly treacherous, with ransomware emerging as one of the most devastating cyber threats facing individuals and organizations. A report from Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that there was one ransomware attack every 11 se...
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On average, 59 percent of organizations worldwide were victims of a ransomware attack between January and February 2024, according to a survey conducted among cybersecurity leaders of worldwide organizations. France ranked first by the ransomware rate in companies, with 74 percent reporting having enc...
eventually founding her company to help others avoid becoming a target of such a ruinous attack. Her presentation focused on the human side of cyber security emphasizing how critical it is for users to remain aware in the present moment while using technology rather than mindlessly clicking and sc...
DEFENSE REPORT By the year 2024, the computer had become the central force of the workplace. Long gone were the days of the typewriter, filing cabinets, and notepads – and in their place, every office worker had become a machine of one, powered by their device, speeding through each eigh...
Published Sep 26, 2024 20 min read Storm-0501: Ransomware attacks expanding to hybrid cloud environments Microsoft has observed the threat actor tracked as Storm-0501 launching a multi-staged attack where they compromised hybrid cloud environments and performed lateral movement from on-premises to ...
However, you'll also need to configure your firewall since antivirus software only works at the internal level and can only detect the attack once it is already in the system. Firewalls are often the first line of defense against any incoming, external attacks. It can protect against both ...
Ryuk ransomware operators engage other cybercriminals to learn about the defenses on a network they attack to find a way to disable them. New Ryuk techniques the researchers saw in their attacks include KeeThief, an open-source tool for extracting credentials from KeePass password manager, the dep...
In fact, ransomware is a type of malware or phishing cyber security attack that destroys or encrypts files and folders on a computer, server, or device.Once devices or files are locked or encrypted, cybercriminals can extort money from the business or device owner in exchange for a key to...