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Ransomware gangs are getting more aggressive these days about pursuing payments and have begun stealing and threatening to leak sensitive documents if victims don't pay the requested ransom demand.
Police experience in crisis and hostage negotiation could come in handy when dealing with cybercriminals who have, effectively, kidnapped data.
FireEye: 27% of all ransomware attacks take place during the weekend, 49% after working hours during weekdays.
In human-operated ransomware attacks, adversaries exhibit extensive knowledge of systems administration and common network security misconfigurations, perform thorough reconnaissance, and adapt to what they discover in a compromised network.
They took DL#s out right before this happened, the lucky ducks.
There was a sharp rise in the frequency of cyber incidents affecting public school districts across the U.S. in 2019, according to new research conducted by the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. ARLINGTON, Va. – February 27, 2020 – (Newswire.com) According to a report released today by the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: […]
Poor threat modeling, non-segmented network, lots of issues here
Ransomware operators stealing data before they encrypt means backups are not enough.
Cybercriminals attacked Regis University last August, crippling the campus’ IT network, phones and email. Despite paying an undisclosed ransom, school officials say day-to-day operations are still affected.
Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. But all too often, ransomware victims fail…
Meanwhile, the mayor of the city of New Orleans says no ransom money demands were made as her city struggles to recover from a major ransomware attack launched
In December 1989 the world was introduced to the first ever ransomware - and 30 years later ransomware attacks are now at crisis levels.
We obsess about school shootings. Meanwhile, our schools endure constant and dangerous cyber-attacks. Let’s talk about that.
After a deadline was missed for receiving a ransom payment, the group behind Maze Ransomware has published almost 700 MB worth of data and files stolen from security staffing firm Allied Universal. We are told this is only 10% of the total files stolen and the rest will be released if a payment is not made.
Lost files and issues with backup management keep affecting Medicaid, other services.
The attack on the city’s libraries follows a similar event that shut down the school district’s networks, crippling operations for three days. County officials called the FBI as soon as attack was confirmed.
Real consequences. Ransomware purveyors are shitheels.
Threat researchers tracking public reports of MSP ransomware incidents up count to 13 this year.