Articles Tagged with ''ransomware''

Ransomware attacks have been increasingly in the headlines—and reaching historic levels of impact with the recent Colonial Pipeline and Kaseya attacks. Findings from the State of Cybersecurity 2021, Part 2 survey report from ISACA in partnership with HCL Technologies show that 35% of respondents report that their enterprises are experiencing more cyberattacks, three percentage points higher than last year.

Workers are engaging in risky behaviors which could put their company’s digital security at risk, despite knowing the dangers, a global survey of more than 8,000 employees has revealed.

Kaseya has received a universal key that will decrypt all of the more than 1,000 businesses and public organizations crippled in the global incident.

The United States, the European Union, NATO and other world powers on Monday accused the Chinese government of an array of malicious cybersecurity incidents, blaming its Ministry of State Security (MSS) and hackers for the security attack on Microsoft's email server disclosed in early March 2021.

While this is a step in the right direction, there are some confusion, speculation and rumors related to CMMC accreditation. The following are three common misconceptions around CMMC certification, with clarification to help organizations requiring CMMC certification to stay well-informed on the necessary guidelines and procedures.

Because cybersecurity events are complicated, we rely on analogies to understand how they work. Analogies are useful, but certain oversimplifications are perpetuating inaccurate narratives. These inaccuracies misdirect productive discussion and as a result, proposed policy and solutions are being based on faulty assumptions. A faulty premise can only yield flawed results…and cyber national security is not an area in which the United States has margin for error.

REvil ransomware gang’s website and infrastructure has gone offline, about a week and a half after the news of the group’s cyberattack on IT software vendor Kaseya.

SonicWall has issued an "urgent security notice" warning customers of ransomware attacks targeting unpatched end-of-life (EoL) Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series and Secure Remote Access (SRA) products.