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
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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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
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
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
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND CONDUCTED LIVE – 24 JUNE 2021 CYDEF – Chief EXECUTIVE OFFICER Steve Rainville Steve has over 20 years of experience in information technology, 15 of which are specifically in IT security services. Steve brings extensive expertise in cyber security services, including Security Operations Centre (SOC) planning and optimization, SIEM solution deployments and security
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Greetings! Welcome to the 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)! We always appreciate you, our readers, but this year we would like to say thank you for just showing up. Thanks for simply making it through the often frightening and always unpredictable dystopian wasteland that was 2020, and still having enough interest and energy to
For businesses around the world, 2020 was a year of change and disruption for reasons that go beyond the pandemic: ransomware was on the rise in a big way and underwent more change and innovation in 2020 than it had in a decade. Double extortion, third-party attacks, and DDoS techniques emerged, pushing ransomware even further
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Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography: Explore Challenges Associated with Adoption and Use of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms Sophos’ annual ransomware survey delivers fresh new insights into the experiences of mid-sized organizations across the globe. It explores the prevalence of attacks, as well as the impact of those attacks on victims, including year-on-year trends. This year, for
Email: An Invaluable Tool and a Growing Threat As COVID-19 swept the globe, businesses found themselves more reliant than ever on email. But this greater dependence also posed new and insidious threats. There’s no question that the pandemic-driven shift from office to home-based work was a major contributor. With the flip of a figurative switch,
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