Section VI derives key lessons learned from these attacks and highlights priority areas needing focus to address open challenges. Finally, Section VII concludes the paper. In the end, Table 1 tells about the list of abbreviations used in this work. Table 1. List of abbrevitions used. Short ...
Ransomware is malware that disrupts endpoints by installing itself and then blocking access. It typically demands a payment, or ransom, to “unlock” access.
The second stage of the research adopted a case study approach to identify cases of ransomware attacks in the food industry that could provide storylines with explanatory power and contextualised understanding (Smith et al.2023). The case study method is an accepted data analysis approach to explain...
The actual level of impact EKANS or ICS-aware MEGACORTEX may have on industrial environments is unclear. Targeting historian and data gathering processes at both the client and server level imposes significant costs on an organization and could induce a loss of view condition within the overall plan...
These mixed responses to the Colonial ransomware event illustrate a tension between security and enterprise that appears whenever insurance engages with crime. Is insurance to be a liberator of action that allows enterprise, in this case by making the ransom payment that brought the pipeline back onl...
and aggressively apply security best practices to their networks. In this blog, we will highlight case studies of human-operated ransomware campaigns that use different entrance vectors and post-exploitation techniques but have overwhelming overlap in the security misconfigurations they abuse and the ...