ransomware

Enemy at the Gates

Financial services is among the industries that have been the heaviest hit by cybercrime — from the heyday of the Zeus and other banking trojans to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, modern phishing attacks, and ransomware. FinServ is a vital sector that plays a major role not only in the lives of people, but also in […]

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CISO Perth 2023

The recent wave of cyber incidents has put Australians citizens under huge stress over the safety of their personal information. For cybersecurity executives, complacency has never been an option. Failure to perform the most basic cyber hygiene practices could cost millions of dollars, create unmeasurable litigation stress, and seriously damage a company’s reputation. Now, more

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Singapore’s Counter Ransomware Task Force Report

The ransomware threat has grown significantly in scale and impact and has become an urgent problem for all digitally connected countries, including Singapore. It is also inherently an international problem, as attacks are conducted from across borders, and jurisdictional lines are leveraged to launder money and evade justice. The Counter-Ransomware Task Force (CRTF) was commissioned

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The Threat Report: Fall 2022

In the third quarter of 2022, Trellix delivered a new, powerful resource to support the future of extended detection and response (XDR) and cybersecurity. The Trellix Advanced Research Center, comprised of hundreds of elite security analysts and researchers was established to help customers detect, respond, and remediate the latest cybersecurity threats. Threat actors also made

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Cyber Security Forecast 2023

Global Forecasts More Attacks by Non-Organized Attackers and Non-Nation State Attackers In 2023 we expect to see more intrusions conducted by non-organized attackers and non-nation state attackers. More of the threat actors operating out of North America and Europe will likely be younger, and conducting intrusion operations not because they’re interested in making money specifically,

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Q3 Ransomware Landscape Report

Q3 of 2022 has provided us with many interesting insights into the ransomware industry. Instead of fairly wide distribution of victims between the various ransomware groups, we saw consistency from Lockbit3.0, as they remain the number one group with 37% of all ransomware attacks this quarter, an increase of 5% since the previous quarter, whereas

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Night Sky and Cheerscrypt: Revealing a Unified Chinese Ransomware Group

Key Takeaways Sygnia recently investigated a Cheerscrypt ransomware attack which utilized Night Sky ransomware TTPs. Further analysis revealed that Cheerscrypt and Night Sky are both rebrands of the same threat group, dubbed ‘Emperor Dragonfly’ by Sygnia. ‘Emperor Dragonfly’ (A.K.A. DEV-0401 / BRONZE STARLIGHT) deployed open-source tools that were written by Chinese developers for Chinese users.

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Threat Report T2 2022

Welcome to the T2 2022 issue of the ESET Threat Report! The past four months were the time of summer vacations for many of us in the northern hemisphere. It appears that some malware operators also took this time as an opportunity to possibly rest, refocus, and reanalyze their current procedures and activities. According to

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