Threat landscape for industrial automation systems in Q3 2024
The ICS CERT quarterly report covers threat landscape for industrial automation systems in Q3 2024.
ransomware
How to Protect Against Ransomware Attacks?
Criminal hackers employ ransomware attacks against their targets by encrypting their data and demanding that a ransom be paid within an allotted timeframe or risk losing it forever. When an…
The post How to Protect Against Ransomware Attacks? appeare…
Healthcare Provider to Pay $65M Settlement Following Ransomware Attack
Lehigh Valley Health Network has agreed to pay a $65 million settlement in a class-action suit filed over a 2023 data breach.
The post Healthcare Provider to Pay $65M Settlement Following Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New Developer-As-A-Service In Hacking Forums Empowering Phishing And Cyberattacks
SCATTERED SPIDER, a ransomware group, leverages cloud infrastructure and social engineering to target insurance and financial institutions by using stolen credentials, SIM swaps, and cloud-native tools to gain and maintain access, impersonating employe…
Legal Firms Increasingly Targeted by Phishing Attacks, Ransomware
Researchers at Bitdefender warn that law firms are high-value targets for ransomware gangs and other criminal threat actors. Attackers frequently use phishing to gain initial access to an organization’s networks.
Google Introduces ‘Air-Gapped’ Backup Vault to Thwart Ransomware
“It’s critical to not only back up your critical workloads, but also to secure those backups against subsequent modification and deletion.”
The post Google Introduces ‘Air-Gapped’ Backup Vault to Thwart Ransomware appeared first on Security…
New RansomHub Attack Killing Kaspersky’s TDSSKiller To Disable EDR
RansomHub has recently employed a novel attack method utilizing TDSSKiller and LaZagne, where TDSSKiller, traditionally used to disable EDR systems, was deployed to compromise network defenses. Subsequently, LaZagne was used to harvest credentials fro…
Security Researcher Sued for Disproving Government Statements
This story seems straightforward. A city is the victim of a ransomware attack. They repeatedly lie to the media about the severity of the breach. A security researcher repeatedly proves their statements to be lies. The city gets mad and sues the resear…
Mallox ransomware: in-depth analysis and evolution
In this report, we provide an in-depth analysis of the Mallox ransomware, its evolution, ransom strategy, encryption scheme, etc.
IT threat evolution in Q2 2024. Non-mobile statistics
This report presents statistics on PC threats for Q2 2024, including data on ransomware, miners, threats to macOS and IoT devices.