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UK Mid-Sized Firms Lost £30bn to CyberAttacks in 2018

Phil Muncaster at InfoSec Mag reported that "Cybersecurity incidents have cost UK mid-market firms a combined £30bn over the past year as automated attacks become the norm, according to ...

Is ‘REvil’ the New GandCrab Ransomware?

Brian Krebs wrote: "The cybercriminals behind the GandCrab ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering recently announced they were closing up shop and retiring after having allegedly earned ...

NEW SANS Whitepaper: Automating Response to Phish Reporting

As part of his SANS Technology Institute Master's degree, Geoffrey Parker recently published a whitepaper called Automating Response to Phish Reporting that got an A, was made a gold ...

An Amazon Phishing Scam Hits Just In Time For Prime Day

Amazon has confirmed that Prime Day 2019 will begin at 12 a.m. PT on Monday, July 15 and conclude at 11:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, July 16.

TrickBot Malware May Recently Have Hacked 250 Million Email Accounts

Endgadged reported that "TrickBot malware may recently have stolen as many as 250 million email accounts, including some belonging to governments in the US, UK and Canada. The malware ...

[Heads-up] New eCh0raix Ransomware Strain Targets NAS Devices

ITPro Today reported: "The eCh0raix ransomware uses a brute-force credential attack to gain access to data stored in QNAP NAS devices.

Pay or Not Pay the Ransom? What’s Your Opinion?

The debate over whether to pay or not to pay the ransom once your system is encrypted is heating up. Yesterday, the US Conference of Mayors approved a resolution coming down in favor of ...

Effects of Ransomware Don’t End With the Ransom

A Florida city is still struggling to recover from a ransomware attack two weeks after the city paid the ransom, according to the New York Times. The attack began after a city employee ...

U.S. Coast Guard Warns Shipping Industry on Cybersecurity. Are You Next?

Kim Nash wrote in the WSJ Cybersecurity newsletter: "Avast! Pirates are getting better with cyber weapons on the high seas, WSJ Pro’s James Rundle reports. Maritime freight operators must ...