The State of Ransomware in Critical Infrastructure 2024
The latest annual Sophos study of the real-world ransomware experiences of energy, oil/gas and utilities sector – a core element of the critical infrastructure supporting businesses – explores the full victim journey, from attack rate and root cause to operational impact and business outcomes. This year’s report sheds light on new areas of study for…
Ransomware Payments, Demands Rose Dramatically in 2021
Ransomware attackers demanded dramatically higher ransom fees last year, and the average ransom payment rose by 78% to 541,010, according to data from incident response (IR) cases investigated by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. IR cases by Unit 42 also saw a whopping 144% increase in ransom demands, to $2.2 million. According to the report,…
Tulsa Cybersecurity Attack Similar to Pipeline Attack
“I can’t share anything other than we know who did it,” Mayor G.T. Bynum said, adding that the city did not pay the hackers. “They wanted to talk with us about what (a ransom) would be for them not to announce (the attack) and we never engaged them.” Bynum said Tulsa’s computer security system identified…
Exposed MongoDB installs being erased, held for ransom
Security researcher Victor Gevers, co-founder of the GDI Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to making the internet safer, is urging administrators to check their MongoDB installations, after finding nearly two hundred of them wiped and being held for ransom. Currently, as of Monday morning, Gevers says he’s discovered 196 instances of a MongoDB installation exposed to…