A majority of ransomware activity resulted from three leading groups. Beazley Security Labs also identified interesting trends with infostealers, including sophisticated techniques to deliver and obfuscate the malware, along with new entrants rising to fill demand.
The trend toward working remotely has been increasing for the past 20 years, spiking in the years since Covid initially hit. This has changed the workplace, and changed cyber security practices.
Phishing attacks have long been a cyber security challenge for organizations; today, they are responsible for more than 80% of reported security incidents.
Small and medium-sized businesses have a unique challenge when it comes to cyber security. Unlike large corporations and government agencies that typically have formal information security teams working full time to prevent and manage cyber threats, these smaller companies rarely have the resources to systematically address their ongoing security needs.
Let’s get the acronym out of the way so we are all on the same page – Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). As a part of an overall Identity and Access Management (IAM) program, MFA can play an important role in managing access and protecting key assets.
It’s possible to spot intruders and eject them from the premises, but it’s faster, safer and less expensive to stop them at the front gate. That’s the rationale for hardening external barriers to IT systems.
We have a team of Incident Response experts here working daily with organizations that have fallen victim to a cyberattack. During our investigation, clients ask a lot of common questions. This post discusses the common questions about working with authorities and our general recommendations.
As cybercrime expands into new realms, senior leaders from small-town school districts to Fortune 50 companies are looking for better ways to protect priceless data and fend off ransomware attacks. Many organizations are now paying small fortunes to vendors making outlandish promises—even before taking relatively simple and inexpensive steps to prevent ransomware infections and respond effectively to those that do occur.
The success or failure of an attack hinges on the intersection of the information attackers have gleaned about a potential target, and their ability to translate that into a weapon to use against them.
Rapid technological advancements have forged the way forward, but security often struggles to catch up. Even savvy organizations scramble to close gaps within their environments’ armor, while a threat actor may only need to successfully exploit one to achieve their final objectives
Once a threat actor is able to penetrate a victim’s environment, they become all the more dangerous and more difficult to shake. This is often caused by the threat actor embedding themselves into the systems they were able to compromise to maintain their hard-earned, unauthorized access.
Once malicious tools have been surreptitiously placed within the boundaries of a target environment, cyberattacks are primed and ready to strike at the first command or trigger.
Attackers craft weapons to send to unsuspecting victims, setting the stage to launch cyberattacks that can cripple critical infrastructure, compromise sensitive data, and generally wreak havoc.