Enhancing Enterprise Security for Ransomware Detection
Ransomware is a profitable business model for cyber criminals with 2016 payments closed at the billon dollar mark. According to a recent survey by IBM, nearly 70% of executives hit by ransomware have paid to get their data back. Those survey results do not include smaller organizations and consumers who are also paying to get their data…
Satan RaaS Promises Large Gains With Zero Coding Needed
A newly discovered family of ransomware is being offered via the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model, allowing cybercriminals to easily customize their own versions of the malware, researchers explain. Dubbed Satan, the new ransomware family was discovered by security researcher Xylitol and is available for any wannabe criminal, as the service only requires the creation of…
Is Your Organization Prepared When the Extortionists Come Calling?
In 2016, Trend Micro partnered with ISMG to conduct a survey of financial, healthcare, and government organizations to better understand the challenges they are facing with ransomware. Some of the results surprised us while others were somewhat expected based on what we’ve saw throughout 2016. We all know ransomware has been a major pain for…
Decrypting CryptXXX version 3 — for free
In April 2016 a young and ambitious trojan cryptor known by the name CryptXXX was released. It was distributed by the infamous Angler and Neutrino exploit kits. It’s creators certainly hoped that after the release they could lay on the couch and watch the money flow from the victims pockets to their bitcoin wallets. But…
After a terrible year for cybersecurity, will 2017 be any better?
From a cybersecurity perspective, 2016 was a very devastating year for companies, schools, government agencies, organizations and even presidential campaigns. What we’ve learned from a record year for breaches, hacks, phishing, malware, and ransomware is what we’ve known all along: cyber criminals are clever and they are not bound by any rules or real strategy….
Cybersecurity is a chess marathon with hackers: Carl Herberger
Apps are an integral part of any business today. Radware, a security and availability solutions provider, is protecting the organizations globally from cybercrime, including DDoS attacks. “We have a phenomenal track record of innovating in security and bringing great partnerships on the table for our end customers. Also we lead the availability solutions area which…
The year ransomware became one of the top threats to enterprises
On Feb. 5, employees at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, started having network access problems that prevented electronic communications. Over the next few days, they learned that the hospital was the victim of a ransomware attack that encrypted files on multiple computers. After several days during which staff had to resort to pen…
Organizations in the Dark as Most Networks Actively Breached: Analysis
While most of the security industry is looking forward and making threat predictions for 2017, one vendor has stopped to analyze what has been happening in 2016 — and the reality is, we aren’t even aware of what is happening in our networks today. Breach detection firm SS8 used its BreachDetect platform to analyze 20…
BrandPost: New POS Malware Attacks Are Becoming More Aggressive
Professionally written-malware is rarely unsubtle. Long, slow and stealthy attacks are generally the rule—but a rogue malware author has decided to break that rule by going fast and loud. What’s more, this approach is actually finding a great deal of success, which should have retailers worried in the lead up to the holiday season. How…
IDG Contributor Network: Grid security insights for 2017: Pressure mounts to prevent physical attacks
As we close out 2016 and look forward to 2017, it seems appropriate to pause a moment and provide some grid security predictions for the new year. Predictions based on trends, insight, and understanding can arm security programs with the knowledge needed to test policies, exercise physical protection systems, and allocate corporate funds for resources….