Ticker.tv reports: A recent report released cybersecurity service provider Sophos reveals a significant rise in remote encryption attacks conducted some of the most active ransomware groups. The study, titled “CryptoGuard: An Asymmetric Approach to the Ransomware Battle,” identifies ransomware groups including Akira, ALPHV/BlackCat, LockBit, Royal, and Black Basta as perpetrators of remote encryption attacks. In […]
A small round-up of posts and analyses of the past year, and predictions for the year ahead. Looking Back at 2023: Data Breaches and Breach Laws Passed Washington State Attorney General Ferguson AG report: Data breaches decline for the second consecutive year, remain historically high List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2023 2023 […]
Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP writes: As we near the end of another year, it is time to look ahead to developments in the information security and privacy landscape. One area of particular importance is the development of regulations implementing the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022. CIRCIA, which was signed into […]
Digital Journal reports: What are the essential cybersecurity concerns for businesses as we head into 2024? To give some realistic expectations of what is to come for cybersecurity in the year ahead, Digital Journal sought the opinion of Skybox Security’s Adi Dubin. Dubin is particularly concerned about AI-generated cyberattacks. Indeed, threat actors’ use of generative AI has fuelled a significant […]
Released by the White House, November 2, 2023 The 50 members of the International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI)—Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, the European Union, France, Germany, Greece, India, INTERPOL, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, New […]
In its second annual Study on Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare, Proofpoint sponsored a Ponemon survey of 653 IT and IT security practitioners to find out how much progress the industry has made in the past year. Here are just a few highlights from this year’s report: You can access the full report on Proofpoint’s website.
Victims unfortunate enough to have been hit with a ransomware attack that either lock all their data and backups or delete it all and demand payment to get data back are often given assurances that not only will they get a decryption key if their data was locked, but the attackers stand ready to promptly […]
Joe Lazzarotti at The Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report calls our attention to some interesting findings in IBM’s annual Cost of a Data Breach Report. Some of these will not surprise you, but some may: Read more details on Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report.
In July, SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown and CFO Bart Kalsu received Securities and Exchange Commission notices of potential enforcement action over alleged violation of securities laws. The issue stems from their response to the Russian hack of the Orion network monitoring software in 2020 — a product used by more than 30,000 organisations. This isn’t the first […]
The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2023
Bleeping Computer reports: 2023 was a big year for cybersecurity, with significant cyberattacks, data breaches, new threat groups emerging, and, of course, zero-day vulnerabilities. Some stories, though, were more impactful or popular with our 22 million readers than others.Below are fourteen of what BleepingComputer believes are the most impactful cybersecurity stories of 2023, with a […]