In 2016, many organizations were victims of ransomware attacks while others believe they will become a target this year.
Fifty-two percent of security leaders rate their organizations at above average or superior when it comes to detecting or blocking ransomware before it locks or encrypts data in their systems....
Ransomware attackers collected more than $209 million from victims during the first three months of 2016 alone, with the volume of attacks 10 times higher than all of 2015. In addition to the ransom itself, these attacks can exact a heavy cost: business disruption, remediation costs, and a diminished...
A scareware campaign has been locking iOS devices with faux ransomware, demanding a payoff via virtual iTunes gift cards, security researchers warn. A fix for the exploited iOS flaw is included in a massive batch of product patches and updates released by Apple.
Like many other inventions now common in modern life, distributed cybercrime may seem trivial today. But this concept emerged little more than a decade ago and has already dominated the threat landscape.
A ransomware attack on a Texas urology practice that potentially affects nearly 280,000 patients ranks as one of the largest health data breaches reported to federal regulators this year.
In 2010, a computer security firm in Belarus stumbled upon Stuxnet, a mysterious virus of unparalleled complexity that was attacking systems in Iran. Unlike any other virus or worm built before, this one didn't just simply hijack the targeted computers or steal information from them, it escaped the digital realm to...
Cyber-extortion has reached new proportions, with a wide variety of methods, such as distributed-denial-of-service attacks and ransomware variants, being used to extort individuals and organizations. Ransomware-DDoS hybrid attacks, like Cerber, have showcased how attackers have added DDoS capabilities to ransomware....
Deception is the most successful strategy in military history. Just as armies used deceit to conquer continents, cyber-deception is being used by more and more organizations to exploit a hacker's greatest weakness - being a human, after all, behind a keyboard. Deception techniques such as honeypots are not a new. But...
One of the world's biggest botnets, Necurs, is back. But instead of flinging banking Trojans and ransomware, this time it's spouting spam aimed at influencing the price of cheap stocks, say security researchers from Cisco's Talos group.
With ransomware attackers having already launched attack code with themes ranging from horror movies and Pokemon to Hitler to cats, it was only a matter of time before they decided to beam Star Trek's Kirk and Spock direct to would-be victims' PCs.
While attackers continue to innovate, traditional intrusion prevention systems (IPS) have stood still, generating low-value alerts for security teams as attackers slip past in pursuit of high-value targets. Organizations have countered by piling more and more equipment on the network hoping to solve the problem....
Making the right decisions about how to deploy Office 365 can be a show-stopper, particularly as you consider branch office and remote user connectivity. Each Office 365 user generates between 12 and 20 persistent connections. Each connectivity option, ExpressRoute, hub-and-spoke or direct-to-Internet, deals with this...
What if you had a secret weapon that provided the visibility and context you need to make a quick judgment about the severity of an alert and more important, understand the context of what was going on before and after that alert?
With metadata, you do. Rich metadata can answer many questions about what's happening...
This monthly Security Agenda will highlight some of the most recent additions to our course library. March's edition features Former Federal CISO
Gregory Touhill giving a "Cyber State of the Union." Other industry influencers like Retired RSA Chair Art Coviello, FBI Cyber Division Supervisory Special Agent Jay...
The business of the cyberattack has matured into a billion dollar industry. Forrester even predicts the devastating effects of a cyberbreach will lead to the failure of a Fortune 1000 company in 2017 (Predictions 2017: Cybersecurity Risks Intensify, November 2016, Forrester). Extortion-based attacks like ransomware...
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