Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks US Indicts, Sanctions Alleged Chinese Sophos Firewall Hacker David Perera•December 10, 2024 The U.S. federal government rolled out its heavy guns Tuesday against a Chinese hacker allegedly at the center of a zero-day exploit used to hack firewalls made by...
Based on evidence from the past years, ransomware threats seem to be increasing in number and regularity, making them one of the most dangerous current cyber attacks to understand. Recent statistics have shown upwards of155 millionransomware attacks in just one quarter of a year. Those are just ...
Of course, this list is far from being complete list. Unfortunately, there are many other recent ransomware attacks that have occurred this year (way more than I have time to write about individually). However, this list at least gives you an idea of what some of the most notable r...
This update also enabled them to adopt a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, streamlining their malicious activities. Recent observations suggest that MedusaLocker consistently divides the ransom payments between the affiliate, who receives 55 to 60 percent of the ransom, and the developer, who claims the...
Among this year’s respondents, virtually everyone – 99.8% –is concerned about the potential for identity, session cookie, and other data siphoned from malware-infected devices being used to enable more harmful attacks like ransomware and account takeover. ...
infected by ransomware, you are probably already too late in your search for a solution. Many ransomware strains don’t actually have a decryptor and you can recover your files even if you pay the ransom. However, this site gives some good advice on protecting your system against attacks. ...
During the attack: For in-progress attacks, access to mission-critical data should be extremely limited. Constant system backup should be a high priority so that — in the event mission-critical data is compromised — data restores can be deployed using recent, uncompromised backups. Avoid becomi...
The notice goes on to explain that the food and agriculture sector has faced an increasing number of attacks in recent months as ransomware groups target critical industries with large attack surfaces. Many of the biggest food companiesnow use an array of IoT devicesand ...
Previous Incidents of Ransomware Attacks in Healthcare The UK had faced a similar attack on its NHS servers during the May 2017Wannacry Ransomware Attackwhich had targeted government agencies and large organizations in several countries. In India as well, the All-India Institute of Medical Scie...
The first half of 2018 saw an uptick in fileless malware attacks and a downturn in ransomware attacks, for now.