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Cybersecurity Outlook 2022: Third-Party, Ransomware and AI Attacks Will Get Worse
About the only consensus on cybersecurity in 2022 is that things will get uglier, but in what ways? Third-party security, ransomware, artificial intelligence (AI) and decentralized finance (DeFi) are some of the threats you can expect to see more of this year – with the potential for far worse results than we’ve seen in the…
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Companies Get Better at Fighting Ransomware Despite Escalating Threats
In a year in which ransomware attacks seem to get worse by the day, companies have made surprising progress defending themselves against attacks. But the attention paid to the malware by journalists, cybersecurity vendors and increasingly, government agencies, has pushed companies to improve their preparedness to defend themselves against ransomware gangs, according to a report…
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Cybersecurity Mesh, Decentralized Identity Lead Emerging Security Technology: Gartner
New cybersecurity buzzwords are always in abundance at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, and the concepts that took center stage this week, like cybersecurity mesh and decentralized identity, seem well suited for new threats that have exploded onto the scene in the last year. Gartner analyst Ruggero Contu noted that security risks are…
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Arrest in Kaseya Attack Highlights Government Ransomware Progress
U.S. law enforcement officials this week announced the indictments of a Ukrainian national and a Russian citizen in connection with ransomware campaigns by the recently shuttered REvil cybercriminal group, including the high-profile attack on IT software vendor Kaseya earlier this year. The indictments followed an announcement by European officials that they had arrested five REvil…
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McAfee’s Consumer Business to Be Acquired by Private Equity Groups
The McAfee consumer security business, which trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol MCFE, will be going private in a deal valued at more than $14 billion. McAfee had sold its Enterprise business just a few months ago, to a private consortium led by Symphony Technology Group (STG) – and McAfee Enterprise was subsequently merged…
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SolarMarker Attackers Use SEO Poisoning to Push Malicious Code
Cybercriminals leveraging the SolarMarker .NET-based backdoor are using a technique called SEO poisoning to drive malicious payloads into victims’ systems so they can gain access to the credentials and data within. According to researchers at Menlo Security, the SolarMarker campaign is one of two such efforts they’ve seen in recent months using SEO poisoning to…
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Multi-Party Cyberattacks Lead to Big Losses: Security Researchers
The attacks on SolarWinds and Kaseya over the past year put a spotlight on how an attack on a single company can have downstream consequences on the victim’s partners and customers. The attackers used the entry they gained into the companies to fan out into businesses and government agencies, stealing data and forcing some to…
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ThycoticCentrify Ransomware Report: 83 Percent of Victims Paying Ransom
The bulk of companies hit by ransomware are deciding that paying the ransom is the best and fastest way to get their businesses back online, despite growing pressure from the federal government and some in industry to not give into the cybercriminals’ demands. A report this week by researchers at ThycoticCentrify – the result of…
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After Springhill: Assessing the Impact of Ransomware Lawsuits
A lawsuit working its way through the courts could have a lot to say about the liabilities facing organizations that have been hit by ransomware attacks – and could have implications for cybersecurity preparation and regulation in general. The first lawsuit over a death allegedly caused by ransomware has been filed in Alabama regarding the…
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Becoming a Cybercriminal Keeps Getting Easier
Zero-day vulnerabilities are no longer exclusively for elite hackers. There are now automated scripts available on GitHub so even novice hackers can explore these previously unknown security flaws. That was one of the insights in the HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report released today. The report noted that the average time for a business to…
