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 […]
Team82’s analysis of vulnerabilities impacting cyber-physical systems across the Extended Internet of Things—1H 2022 After more than 20 years of connecting things to the internet, we’ve reached a critical mass where the food we eat, water we drink, elevators we ride, and the oil and gas that warms our homes rely on computer code. Today’s
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
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
The Ransomware Index Update Q1 2022 documents our continued investigation of ransomware groups and their weaponry of choice. In this index update, we highlight key index numbers that have changed since we published the Ransomware Spotlight Report 2022 in January 2022. In this report, we provide a look into the current ransomware ecosystem, along with
In Q1 2022, Kroll observed a 54% increase in phishing attacks being used for initial access in comparison with Q4 2021. Email compromise and ransomware were the two most common threat incident types, highlighting the integral part played by end users in the intrusion lifecycle. Kroll continues to observe widely-publicized vulnerabilities such as ProxyShell and
Q1 2022 Threat Landscape: Threat Actors Target Email for Access and Extortion Read More »
In January 2022 an independent research firm surveyed over 1,000 unbiased IT leaders about the impact that ransomware had on their environments, as well as what their IT strategies and data protection initiatives are moving forward. Respondents came from organizations of all sizes from over 16 different countries across APJ, EMEA and the Americas. All
The Year Cybersecurity Went Prime Time As high-profile attacks disrupted supply chains, made headlines and prompted new cybersecurity legislation, 2021 proved to be another challenging time for CISOs around the world. DarkSide’s ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline shut down fuel supplies for much of the U.S. East Coast. The Conti group brought Ireland’s health service
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), like other regions, has seen a large increase in threat activity aimed at Managed Service Providers (MSPs) as cyber-criminals exploit vulnerabilities in infrastructure, software and processes to access and compromise sensitive customer data. Public regulations and private cyber-insurance requirements will be among the key drivers for raising IT
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