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The State of Ransomware in State and Local Government 2022

Findings from an independent, vendor-agnostic survey of 5,600 IT professionals in mid-sized organizations across 31 countries, including 199 respondents from the state and local government sector. Introduction Sophos’ annual study of the real-world ransomware experiences of IT professionals in the state and local government sector has revealed an ever more challenging attack environment. Together with […]

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State of Cybersecurity: September 2022

By execassist

Over the past year, the business world has been adjusting to lessons learned from the COVID pandemic. On a workforce level, companies are struggling to decide the best ways to balance employee flexibility and corporate culture. On a technical level, the many benefits of a cloud-first architecture are being weighed against the challenges of managing

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Cyber Signals, August 2022

By execassist

Introduction Cybercriminals emboldened by underground ransomware economy While ransomware continues to be a headline-grabbing topic, there’s ultimately a relatively small, connected ecosystem of players driving this sector of the cybercrime economy. The specialization and consolidation of the cybercrime economy has fueled ransomware as a service (RaaS) to become a dominant business model, enabling a wider

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Multiple Attackers: A Clear and Present Danger

By execassist

Competition has always been fierce among cryptominers and RATs, but ransomware bucks the trend. Since their inception, the Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Rapid Response (RR) teams have been called in to investigate hundreds of ransomware incidents, including intervening in active attacks where the attackers were still on the target’s network. In recent

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Global Incident Response Threat Report 2022

By execassist

For today’s incident responders, combating the ceaseless wave of cyberattacks can feel like being adrift at sea during a never-ending storm. VMware’s 2022 Global Incident Response Threat Report takes a deep dive into the headwinds faced by defenders and how security teams attempt to stay the course. In our annual survey of 125 cybersecurity and

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2022 Social Engineering Report

By execassist

Social engineering is the preeminent component of the overwhelming majority of cyberattacks today. Whether the goal of a threat actor is to directly perpetrate fraud, harvest credentials, or install malware, at some point a human being must be coerced into taking an action on the actors’ behalf. This fact is the basis for Proofpoint’s People-Centric

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The Ransomware Ecosystem

By execassist

At the RSA Conference in 2020, Joel DeCapua, a supervisory special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), revealed that ransomware groups had collectively earned over $144 million from 2013 through 2019, which was considered a staggering number at the time. However, in 2020 alone, ransomware groups reportedly earned $692 million from their collective

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Avast Digital Wellbeing Report

By execassist

Over the last two years, the Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the wellbeing of internet users across the world. As social distancing was adopted and most face-to-face economic activity came to a halt, many people found their lives changed from one day to the next as they started fully working, socializing, and

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Cyber Security Analyst Program

By execassist

Studies suggest a huge shortage in Cyber Security Analysts and a constant increase in demand for this profession. According to Deloitte, “A massive and growing talent shortfall is one of the most critical challenges facing the cyber security world today. In fact, nowhere in IT is the talent shortage more pronounced than in the cyber arena.”

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The State of Industrial Cybersecurity

By execassist

The purpose of this survey is to reveal the current state and challenges of industrial cybersecurity, especially in promoting secure smart factories or critical infrastructures. Manufacturing, electric utilities, and oil and gas companies around the world are amid of digitizing their infrastructure and operations for sustainable growth. At the same time, cybersecurity threats that could

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