This is the first in a series of blogs focused on multi-cloud use maturity.  The series highlights the topics contained in a new eBook, “The Eight Critical IT Practice Areas That Drive Multi-Cloud Use Maturity”.  From public cloud to multi-cloud While IaaS was the initial value driver for the public cloud, in recent years, public cloud providers have added hundreds of additional “as a Service” offerings.  The availability of these non-IaaS cloud services has helped…

Researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign designed to spread ransomware and steal data by capitalizing on interest in the recent Colonial Pipeline outage. Security vendor Inky spotted the malicious emails, which said several Microsoft 365 customers were targeted. Emails were spoofed to appear as if sent from the recipient’s “Help Desk.” They were instructed to click on a malicious link in order to download a critical “ransomware system update” to protect their organization from the same fate…

A 55-year-old Latvian woman has been charged on multiple counts for her alleged role in developing malware for the infamous Trickbot group. On Friday, Alla Witte, aka “Max,” was charged with 19 counts of a 47-count indictment after being arrested in February in Miami. The indictment claimed that she helped develop code related to the control, deployment, and payments of ransomware and software to track authorized users of the malware and tools and protocols to…

As many of you are aware, it has been a difficult period for companies offering free cloud compute [1]. Unfortunately, Docker’s Autobuild service has been targeted by the same bad actors, so today we are disappointed to announce that we will be discontinuing Autobuilds on the free tier starting from June 18, 2021.  In the last few months we have seen a massive growth in the number of bad actors who are taking advantage of…

The UK’s leading cybersecurity authority has updated its guidance on ransomware following a spate of attacks on the education sector. GCHQ spin-off, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said it was investigating another rise in threats targeting schools, universities and colleges. “Ransomware attacks can have a devastating impact on organizations, with victims requiring a significant amount of recovery time to reinstate critical services. These events can also be high profile in nature, with wide public…