RSS_Virtulization

Ransomware – malware that aims to prevent victims from accessing their data unless they pay their attackers – seems to be in the news more than ever before. Sophos’s most recent annual ransomware survey, The State of Ransomware 2021, found that 37% of organisations surveyed in 2021 had been affected by ransomware in the previous year. Although this is a year-on-year reduction (51% of surveyed organisations were affected in 2020), the threat remains significant. The…

The increasing prevalence of ransomware tops the findings of the McAfee Enterprise Advanced Threat Research Report: October 2021 released today. While ransomware continues to hold cybersecurity headlines hostage, so much has changed since our last threat report. After shutting down the Colonial Pipeline, DarkSide created the appearance of walking away after attracting government scrutiny, thinking we would miss the (alleged) connection to BlackMatter. Our Advanced Threat Research team also made a move to McAfee Enterprise,…

What is your organization’s approach to security events? For many organizations, each security alarm is treated with the same urgency as a fire. While a sense of urgency is good, the ensuing panic that occurs is not a recipe for longevity. The constant shifting of attention from one emergency to the next is fatiguing; it can often lead to mistakes that compound an event. The “all hands on deck” approach is similar to an ineffective method of…

By Ryan Ayers, Consultant Cyber attacks cost the global economy more than $1 trillion last year, making it responsible for the theft of one percent of the global GDP. The pandemic was a bit of a catalyst, as a dependence on ecommerce led to more opportunities for hackers, but even before COVID, cybercrime was on the rise and evolving. Most experts expect ecommerce to continue to be sought out even after the pandemic, meaning cybersecurity’s…