According to a report by IBM, the average cost of a ransomware attack, not including the cost of the ransom, is $4.54 million. Further reports by Sophos and Palo Alto, estimate that the ransom amount averaged between $570,000 and $812,360.
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North American cybersecurity agencies are warning about a new variant of the Truebot Trojan that collects and exfiltrates information from victims. The new variant attacks a known critical-severity vulnerability - a remote code execution vulnerability in the Netwrix Auditor.
Ransomware believed to originate from the Russian LockBit 3.0 group locked up computer systems for the Port of Nagoya, Japan's largest cargo hub. The attack held up shipments of Toyota auto parts containers for two days, but the port reopened Thursday morning.
A hacker suspected to be based in Mexico is targeting financial institutions using "relatively unsophisticated" tools but is achieving a high degree of success among banking customers, SentinelOne said. The threat actor also offers smishing as a service.
According to the results from SE Labs, VMware NSX NDR provides 100 percent protection across multi-cloud environments from four major advanced and persistent threats (APT) groups—including FIN7&Carbanak, OilRig, APT3 and APT29—while returning zero false positives.
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Lateral movement is also often overlooked because most security tools focus on the perimeter of the network, and they seldom look at the interactions among internal hosts, and, as a result, these tools might miss important aspects of a multi-step attack.
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Microsoft discovered hackers targeting internet-facing Linux systems and IoT devices to steal IT resources for cryptocurrency mining operations. The campaign begins by brute-forcing target systems and devices and then uses a backdoor to deploy open-source tools such as rootkits and an IRC bot.
The National Security Agency has released mitigation advice for locking down Windows and Linux environments against powerful BlackLotus malware, warning organizations against having "a false sense of security" since patching alone will not stop the bootkit.
Phishing attacks have come a long way from the spray-and-pray emails of just a few decades ago. Now they’re more targeted, more cunning and more dangerous. And this enormous security gap leaves you open to business email compromise, session hijacking, ransomware and more.
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According to a recent report, 48% of IT professionals reported an increase in ransomware attacks with 22% of organisations experiencing a ransomware attack in past 12 months and 51% of enterprises not having a formal ransomware plan.
Ransomware-as-a-Service is quickly rising with more sophisticated methods of...
After nearly a year during which it was thought to be dead, the notorious Emotet botnet roared back to life in November 2021.The malware has added several new abilities and features that make it more dangerous than ever.
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Researchers have identified two legitimate-looking malicious npm packages that concealed an open-source info stealer for two months before being detected and removed. Developers downloaded the TurkoRat malware about 1,200 times from open-source repositories.
While security tools have become more adept at detecting payloads in emails, attacks that lack known indicators and rely instead on impersonation/social engineering tactics are successfully bypassing these traditional controls and reaching inboxes. If an organization’s email security controls are not effective...
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is “one of the most financially damaging online crimes” according to the FBI. It is a cunning form of email impersonation that, when combined with human error, can be incredibly disruptive and damaging. Phishing and Account Takeover (ATO) attacks target employees and trick them into...
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