Articles Tagged with ''ransomware''

New York Senator David Carlucci introduced Senate Bill S7289 that would ban the paying of ransom.

Weak passwords were one of the most common cybersecurity vulnerabilities in 2019, causing 30% of ransomware infections in 2019.

As we begin a new year and decade, the cyber threat landscape presents both existing and new threats, trends and techniques.

Apparently, we are getting in our own way when it comes to advancing cybersecurity. According to a leading 2018 study by the Ponemon Institute LLC (sponsored by IBM), the three primary causes of data breaches were malicious or criminal attack, system glitch and human error. While the study reports that the length of time to identify and contain, and the cost, were lower for data breaches caused by human error as opposed to the other categories, it is an issue that nearly 27 percent of data breaches are caused by human error.

Pulse Secure VPN servers are being targeted by cybercriminals who use the REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware to extort large organizations.

Ryuk ransomware has struck a facility belonging to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), affecting industrial control systems, security cameras and more, according to the USCG.

2020 heralds a few major shifts that will transform cybersecurity: ransomware attacks, artificial intelligence, facial recognition and mobile cybersecurity.

LifeLabs recently identified a cyberattack that involved unauthorized access to their computer systems that possibly impacts 15 million people.

Hackers can be relentless with their cyberattacks. While organizations can be vulnerable to many security threats, ransomware is especially ruthless since its attacks are completely automated. It doesn’t matter what industry or business you are in – hackers don’t care if your organization has “nothing of value,” their machines will try to attack anything that is vulnerable.