The dangers associated with compromising critical infrastructure assets burst into public view with the May 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, prompting significant investment from both the government and the private sector, according to Claroty Chief Product Officer Grant Geyer.
As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, and analysts watch for retaliatory cyberattacks against Ukraine's allies, cybercrime tracker Jon DiMaggio of Analyst1 says there's good news, in that Russian cybercriminals seem to have little or no incentive to move against U.S. critical infrastructure.
Mandiant has taken advantage of the opportunity to become truly vendor-agnostic since selling its FireEye products business to Symphony Technology Group in October, and it has pursued integrations with leading endpoint security vendors, says executive vice president and CTO Marshall Heilman.
Darknet markets continue to thrive despite regular disruption by law enforcement agencies and exit scams by administrators because they offer easy access to services such as tools for laundering cryptocurrency, says Kimberly Grauer, head of research at blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.
Unit 42 researchers have uncovered a new remote access Trojan dubbed PingPull being used by the persistent threat actor Gallium, a group suspected of Chinese state sponsorship and known for targeting telecommunications, finance and government organizations across Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa.
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More than 90% of all healthcare organizations reported at least one security breach over the last 3 years. Robust cybersecurity has become a top priority and an essential requirement for all C-level healthcare executives. The most crucial challenges related to...
The Uptycs Threat Research team publishes this quarterly bulletin as a 3-month lookback, summarizing the trends and findings of their original threat intel across the three major operating systems: Linux, Windows and macOS.
The Threat Research Team regularly monitors the TTPs (tactics, techniques and...
An Arizona medical center that suffered a ransomware attack in April has begun notifying 700,000 individuals of a data breach compromising sensitive medical and personal information. The incident is among the latest major health data breaches involving ransomware.
An operator deploying BlackCat ransomware, also known as ALPHV, appears to have claimed the University of Pisa as its latest victim. University officials reportedly face a ransom demand of $4.5 million, a "discount price" that will jump to $5 million after Thursday.
Every second of downtime after a ransomware attack costs businesses in industries such as retail and e-commerce large sums of cash. Business continuity is therefore vital even before determining whether ransomed data or systems can be recovered, says VMware Security General Manager Kal De.
Security leaders shouldn't ignore current geopolitical tensions, which are going to infiltrate into private sectors, says Troy Leach of the Cloud Security Alliance. And John Kindervag of ON2IT Cybersecurity says - for that reason - organizations need to stop being cheap on cybersecurity.
Based on the collected results, there was one major shift from last year’s report: Security. Security was selected by 27% of the respondents, which is an increase of 5% over last year.
Quality also saw an increase of 4% for a total of 25%. Both of these gains took away from safety, which saw a decrease of 9% over...
Three in four organizations experienced a malware attack last year, according to Comparitech. With malware attacks increasing year over year, it is imperative to arm your network with proactive solutions coinciding with reactive solutions. Take the first steps to protect your IT environment by equipping yourself with...
Top Russian diplomat Andrei Krutskikh is pressuring the U.S. to back down in cyberspace after the director of U.S. Cyber Command, Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, acknowledged America has conducted a "full spectrum" of virtual operations in support of Ukraine.
Crum & Forster CISO Chris Holden has helped organizations respond to many breaches over the years, and through this experience he has developed an excellent sense of who companies should call first and have on their response team if they suspect that a security incident has taken place.
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