Research finds 56% increase in active ransomware groups

News February 15, 2023

Losing the ransomware war, and the plan to fight back

2 min read - In the war against ransomware, we appear to be losing. Leading up to the recently concluded Second International Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit, a Biden Administration Official said, “So, we’re seeing the pace and the sophistication of the ransomware attacks increasing…

News February 13, 2023

Unique Iran-based threats target defense and healthcare

4 min read - The Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordinating Center released a security brief in early November outlining how Tehran-backed actors have targeted the defense, healthcare and other sectors. One incident involved a campaign by a threat…

News February 8, 2023

Asia Pacific faces a severe cybersecurity worker shortage

2 min read - Having a skilled team of cybersecurity professionals is an organization’s best defense against threat actors. Not only can it decrease the risk of cybersecurity attacks, but it also reduces business disruption when attacks do occur. However, the 2022 ISC2 Cybersecurity…

News February 6, 2023

Are threat actors using ChatGPT to hack your network?

4 min read - Though the technology has only been widely available for a couple of months, everyone is talking about ChatGPT. If you are one of the few people unfamiliar with ChatGPT, it is an OpenAI language model with the “ability to generate…

News January 30, 2023

Malware-as-a-Service flaunts its tally of users and victims

5 min read - As time passes, the security landscape keeps getting stranger and scarier. How long did the “not if, but when” mentality towards cyberattacks last — a few years, maybe? Now, security pros think in terms of how often will their organization…

News January 25, 2023

New survey shows burnout may lead to attrition

2 min read - For many organizations and the cybersecurity industry as a whole, improving retention and reducing the skills gap is a top priority. Mimecast’s The State of Ransomware Readiness 2022: Reducing the Personal and Business Cost points to another growing concern —…

News January 23, 2023

Alleged FBI database breach exposes agents and InfraGard

4 min read - Recently the feds suffered a big hack, not once, but twice. First, the FBI-run InfraGard program suffered a breach. InfraGard aims to strengthen partnerships with the private sector to share information about cyber and physical threats. That organization experienced a…

News January 18, 2023

Google ad scam makes millions using fake adult-only sites

4 min read - An advertising fraud scheme that utilized Google Ads and “pop-unders” on adult websites generated estimated millions of ad impressions on stolen content. The campaign was reported by Malwarebytes on December 20, and the scam raked in an estimated $275,000 per…

News January 16, 2023

Third-party risk contributes to healthcare data breaches

4 min read - Since 2009, the number of individuals affected by health data breaches in the U.S. has exceeded the country’s population of 331.9 million. As per federal statistics, this means many people have been victims of more than one incident. Unfortunately, the…

News January 11, 2023

Read carefully: The dangers of Punycode and typosquatting

4 min read - Many phishing attacks pose as banks, and their efforts can be quite convincing. Everything in the email might look official, including the logo. But if you carefully examine the sender’s address, you can see it’s from an imposter. Now threat…