Report highlights Top attack type: Ransomware was again the top attack type in 2021, although the percentage of attacks X-Force remediated that were ransomware decreased nearly 9% year-over-year. REvil—a ransomware type X-Force also refers to as Sodinokibi—was the most common ransomware strain X-Force observed for a second year, making up 37% of all ransomware attacks, […]
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Ramifications of the Colonial Pipeline breach Lead Analyst: Bruce Snell, Vice President, Security Strategy and Transformation, US On Friday, 7 May, Colonial Pipeline suspended operations due to a ransomware outbreak, attributed to the DarkSide ransomware group, in their network. With Colonial supplying around 45% of the East Coast’s fuel, this led to panicked runs on
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The 2021 Global Threat Intelligence Report reminds us that in a world of evolving cyberthreats, we need to stay ahead of the curve to secure the next horizon of cyber resilience. Success lies in rethinking what you need to accommodate new ways of working; engaging with your ecosystem of partners and customers to entrench trust
Not all world records are cause for celebration—just look at the DDoS attack numbers from 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive shift in internet usage, cybercriminals quickly pounced, launching more than 10 million DDoS attacks aimed at crippling targets with a heavy reliance on online services. Attack frequency spiked 20 percent year over
Foreword Before joining Palo Alto Networks, I served 35 years in the US military, with the last 10 of those years devoted to cyber-related assignments. During my tenure, I was able to see firsthand how ransomware was a major threat to national security—and we’re still seeing it today. Ransomware is one of the top threats
Executive Summary Moving Toward the Color Purple In art, mixing mellow blue with aggressive red yields a vibrant purple. What happens, though, when the same palette is combined in the realm of cybersecurity? Blue and red security teams typically live in separate organizational silos. This is partially a matter of organizational structure and partially a
2H 2020 Introduction and Key Findings The world rarely comes to a consensus on anything, but pretty much everybody agrees that putting 2020 behind us was a good thing. In many ways, we’d also prefer to move rather than revisiting the cyber threat landscape of the past year. But like it or not, the echoes
The year 2020 will be one that we will all remember for a very long time. Twelve months ago, very few of us could have foreseen the global disruption that would be caused by COVID-19, the worst pandemic in over a century. The seismic changes that affected our lives almost overnight continue to be felt,
The year 2020 was without a doubt one of the most consequential and transformational in recent memory: A global pandemic, economic turmoil impacting millions of people’s lives, and social and political unrest. The reverberations from these events affected businesses in profound ways, with many making a major shift to distributed workforces. In the cyber realm,
