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RANSOMWARE: A look at the criminal art of malicious code, pressure, and manipulation

GOALS The goals of this paper are to demonstrate how dangerous ransomware has become, describe the latest techniques used by ransomware gangs, and suggest what your organization can do to reduce exposure to, and damage from, ransomware attacks. Three ransomware attack vectors are addressed in this order: remote access, email, and supply chain. RANSOMWARE — […]

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2021 Webroot BrightCloud Threat Report

By execassist

“Zoom parties.” Before 2020 happened, if you’d told me that Zoom parties would become one of the most exciting events on my social calendar, I’d never have believed it. Yet here we are, with much of the world having been in varying states of social restriction or lockdown for over a year. Although remote work

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Avast Global PC Risk Report, H1 2021 Snapshot

By execassist

It has been more than a year since Covid-19 started spreading and, in that time, the virus has defined the entire world, both online and offline. Avast observed cybercriminals using the pandemic to their advantage, spreading scams and phishing attacks to exploit people’s natural thirst for information during unprecedented times. During this time, ransomware attacks

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Learnings from the Kaseya Supply Chain Attack and Mass Ransomware Incident

By execassist

On Friday, July 2, at least eight MSPs were hit with ransomware that infected their infrastructure and many of their customers. The attack exploited some unpatched vulnerabilities in the on-premises Kaseya VSA product, and then leveraged the remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution to help spread the ransomware. The incident allegedly has affected up to 1,500 companies, and

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Naked Security

By haridas_mondal

We take an expert look at the latest cybersecurity incidents, how they happened, and why. Tune in weekly to learn what you can do to stop bad things from happening to you!.

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2021 Ransomware Victims Report

By execassist

The Cold Reality of Ransomware Attacks Ransomware is one of the most widely discussed threats in cybersecurity. However, not enough research exists about the experiences of organizations that have actually suffered from ransomware attacks. For this report, Sapio Research Ltd—an independent research firm—surveyed 200 IT decision makers whose organizations experienced a ransomware attack between 2019

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A Fresh Look at Trickbot’s Ever-Improving VNC Module

By execassist

The journey of Trickbot starts almost half a decade ago, when it appeared in the form of a banker and credential-stealing application. Drawing inspiration from Dyre (or Dyreza), Trickbot consists of an ecosystem of plugin modulesand helper components. As of late, the Trickbot group, which has managed to infect millions of computers worldwide, has played

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The State of Ransomware in Education 2021

By execassist

Based on an independent survey of 499 IT decision makers, this report shares new insights into the state of ransomware in the education sector. It provides a deep dive into the prevalence of ransomware in education, the impact of the attacks, the cost of ransomware remediation, and the proportion of data that education organizations could

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2020 Report on Threats Affecting ICS Endpoints

By execassist

The security of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) has been pushed into the limelight over the past few years due to the increasing interconnection between the business process on the IT side and the physical process on the OT side. While this interconnection improves visibility, efficiency, and speed it also inadvertently exposes ICSs to threats that

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Internet Security Report Q1 2021

By execassist

After a very difficult 2020, filled with the pandemic, global political strife and regional societal conflicts, everyone was looking for a fresh start in 2021. Not only did last year’s global discord affect us all personally, but it also brought changes to the IT world that resulted in new threat landscape trends, which required reimagined

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