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Quarterly Threat Report: Third Quarter, 2025

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.

Top Cyber Risks
Top Cyber Risks

Hardening the Frontlines of Ransomware Defense

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.

Ransomware
Ransomware

Working With Law Enforcement During a Breach

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.

Tips and Guidance
Tips and Guidance

How to Stop Ransomware

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.

Ransomware
Ransomware

How Can We Improve the Security of Our Video Conferencing?

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.

Tips and Guidance
Tips and Guidance

Mastering The Kill Chain - Step Seven: Action on Objectives

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

Kill Chain
Kill Chain

Mastering The Kill Chain - Step Five: Installation

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.

Kill Chain
Kill Chain

Mastering The Kill Chain - Step Four: Exploitation

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.

Kill Chain
Kill Chain

Mastering The Kill Chain - Step Three: Delivery

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.

Kill Chain
Kill Chain

Mastering The Kill Chain - Step Two: Weaponization

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.

Kill Chain
Kill Chain

Mastering The Kill Chain - Step One: Reconnaissance

Reconnaissance is generally defined as the information gathering that occurs before an attack. This could include gathering technical information, such as information about network topology and systems, including what operating systems (OSs), applications, and services are running in a target's environment.

Kill Chain
Kill Chain
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