News November 9, 2022

Ransomware-as-a-Service Transforms Gangs Into Businesses

3 min read - Malware-as-a-Service is getting easier and easier to access, according to a recent threat report. Self-named the ‘Eternity Project’, this cyber threat group offers services from a Tor website and on their Telegram channel. They sell a wide variety of malware…

Government October 11, 2022

How the US Government is Fighting Back Against Ransomware

6 min read - As ransomware-related payments surged toward $600 million in the first half of 2021, the U.S. government knew it needed to do more to fight back against cyber criminals. For many years, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had…

Risk Management October 4, 2022

Why Do Ransomware Gangs Keep Coming Back From the Dead?

4 min read - Ransomware gangs are major players in the cybersecurity space, especially in recent years. ZDNet reported that ransomware gangs increased their payments by over 311% from 2019 to 2020, with totals for all groups exceeding $350 million in 2020. Ransoms continued…

Data Protection March 3, 2022

Expert Insights: What’s Next for Ransomware?

4 min read - Last year, many organizations stopped talking about when the workforce would be back full-time in the office. Instead, they focused on how we build a hybrid work model for the future. 2021 was active and interesting – for lack of…

Malware February 25, 2022

Trickbot Group’s AnchorDNS Backdoor Upgrades to AnchorMail

6 min read - IBM Security X-Force researchers have discovered a revamped version of the Trickbot Group’s AnchorDNS backdoor being used in recent attacks ending with the deployment of Conti ransomware. The Trickbot Group, which X-Force tracks as ITG23, is a cybercriminal gang known…

Data Protection January 24, 2022

What CISA Incident Response Playbooks Mean for Your Organization

4 min read - What does the latest U.S. federal ruling on cybersecurity mean for you? The recent executive order and U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) commentary on it could provide a good framework for defending against ransomware and other attacks. In…