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Ransomware’s perfect target: Why one industry needs to improve cybersecurity, before it’s too late

Ransomware attacks against the shipping and logistics industry have tripled in the past year, as cyber criminals target the global supply...

Ransomware: Why we’re now facing a perfect storm

Ransomware is becoming more successful than ever before because of a combination of factors that allow cyber criminals to easily gain...

Ransomware puzzle: These two pieces of malware look very different, but they evolved from the same root

Two very different forms of ransomware with different methods targeting two different operating systems likely to have started off as one...

Cybereason CISO Israel Barak to Speak on Multi-Stage Ransomware…

“Multi-stage ransomware threats across the energy, healthcare, pharmaceutical and banking industries is concerning because nation-states and cybercriminal groups are disrupting business...

Ryuk Rakes in $150M in Ransom Payments

The administrator of your personal data will be Threatpost, Inc., 500 Unicorn Park, Woburn, MA 01801. Detailed information on the processing of personal...

Treasury Dept. Advisory Shines Spotlight on Ransomware Negotiators

With attacks showing no signs of abating, some companies have begun offering services to help reduce ransom demands, buy more time, and arrange...

US Treasury Warns of Sanctions Violations for Paying Ransomware Attackers

An alarming new advisory issued today by the federal government could upend ransomware response.As if getting hit with ransomware wasn't stressful enought, there's...

Managed IT Providers: The Cyber-Threat Actors’ Gateway to SMBs

Criminals have made MSPs a big target of their attacks. That should concern small and midsize businesses a great deal. For years, cybersecurity has...

Garmin Confirms Services Upended by Ransomware Attack

Garmin on Monday confirmed that many of its online services have been disrupted by a cyberattack on its systems that occurred on July...

3 Years After NotPetya, Many Organizations Still in Danger of Similar Attacks

The same gaps that enabled ransomware to spread remain in patching, network segmentation, backup practices, security experts say.Three years after the NotPetya ransomware...

Researchers Say Ransomware Attacks on the Rise as More People Work From Home

A study published by cybersecurity firm, Proofpoint, shows an increase in email-based phishing attacks used to deliver ransomware over the last few months.According...

Florence City to Pay $300,000 as Ransom After their System was Infected with Ransomware

In late May, threat actors infiltrated information technology systems of Florence City in Alabama and infected with ransomware. The city’s IT department...

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