In celebrating its two-year birthday this month, experts take a look at the Phobos ransomware in detail and offer up suggestions on how to avoid infection.
It’s an extra challenging year, harder than most, to choose the most impactful cybersecurity events. The year ended with a bang – the Solarwinds supply chain attack – which possibly ...
This family of ransomware is growing in popularity with affiliates, providing them with two attack variants and appears to be establishing a new “as-a-service” business model.
According to new data from UK cyber insurer Beazley shows ransomware claims have increased materially and calls for organizations to employ a layered cyber defense.
A new report from the Identity Theft Research Center discusses which cybersecurity attacks will be most impactful next year as part of the ITRC’s 2021 predictions.
Since August of this year, some ransomware attacks are being followed up by phone calls to increase pressure, promote the attack internally, and increase the chances of getting paid.
Catalin Cimpanu at ZDNet reported on another evil escalation in ransomware extortion tactics. In attempts to put pressure on victims, some ransomware gangs are now cold-calling victims on ...
The news last month of the “retirement” of Maze should be a warning to organizations wondering what ransomware will come next and how much worse will it be.
The average ransomware payout has increased by 178% over the past year, according to researchers at Atlas VPN. In Q4 2019, the payments averaged $84,000. By Q3 2020, the average payment ...
Unlike the traditional methods of notifying victim organizations by simply taking over a computer or providing a “readme” text file, this new method has some devilish benefits.
