The outages of the notorious REvil - aka Sodinokibi - ransomware operation have been due to a coordinated law enforcement effort involving the U.S. and foreign partners, aimed at disrupting the group's attack capabilities, Reuters reports.
How many ways do U.S. businesses need to be told to lock down their systems to safeguard themselves from ransomware? That's the focus of a new, joint cybersecurity advisory from the U.S. government pertaining to BlackMatter, following an advisory issued last month about Conti.
On one hand, 60% of survey respondents rate their institutions as "above average" or "superior" when it comes to mitigating fraud. Yet, 55% say their customers and partners lack sufficient awareness to protect themselves from fraud. Appgate's Bryan Jardine analyzes the Faces of Fraud survey results.
MITRE, the not-for-profit organization that works across governmental and federal agencies, as well as various industrial verticals and academia, has set up The Cyber Infrastructure Protection Innovation Center and The Clinical Insights Innovation Cell to protect healthcare.
SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline. Kaseya. Just see the news: Cyber attacks are on the rise, causing greater lost revenue, negative publicity and customer distrust. In several recent cases, public companies suffered losses that exceeded $250 million from a single breach. And today's sophisticated adversaries increasingly...
Critical infrastructure, technology vendors, healthcare providers – they all have been high-profile ransomware victims in 2021, and you have every reason to believe your manufacturing organization could be next. What is at stake, and how specifically can an entity in your sector reduce risk and prepare a recovery...
With deep national security implications, the cyber risks associated with the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) are perhaps the most urgent. Threat actors have realized that targeting vulnerable companies across the defense supply chain can be not only a profitable enterprise but also an alternate method to accessing...
Cybersecurity experts have been
and remain concerned about a potential attack on the U.S.
election infrastructure. With Russian interference
in the 2016 elections, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA) undertook the mission to ensure free and...
In 2020, reports indicated that cyberattacks on the healthcare industry more than doubled from 2019, with
ransomware accounting for 28 percent of all attacks. Unlike previous attacks focused
primarily on providers, the COVID-19 pandemic
exposed vulnerabilities in the entire healthcare sector.
Attackers, especially...
A federal law signed earlier this year amending the HITECH Act could help incentivize many healthcare sector entities to bolster their cybersecurity programs, says federal adviser Erik Decker, CISO of Intermountain Health, who suggest other incentives, as well.
Today, healthcare organizations are adopting and leveraging more public cloud technologies to keep up with the demands of delivering modern healthcare and supporting the evolving connected health ecosystem. How should healthcare organizations incorporate data security practices to public cloud and SaaS applications...
Police in Ukraine have arrested two members of a ransomware operation they say has targeted businesses in North American and Europe, leading to victim losses totaling at least $150 million. The operation also involved French cyber police, the FBI and Interpol, backed by Europol's European Cybercrime Center.
This case study is based on interviews with executives responsible for contact center customer service and fraud prevention in two Top 20 U.S. Banks concerning the contact center challenges they faced and the needs that led them to look for a new technology solution.
Download this case study to learn how two Top 20...
Though ransomware is not a new type of malware, it is becoming ever more pervasive and ransom demands are only getting higher.
What is the key to ransomware’s success?
Download this guide and learn:
How ransomware has remained a persistent threat
Common attack methods
What prevention and detection methods to...
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