Disaster recovery and ransomware resilience firm Zerto is launching Zerto 10 for Microsoft Azure, a new disaster recovery solution designed to enhance disaster recovery and mobility for complete infrastructure flexibility. The company also unveiled new real-time encryption and detection features and a new air-gapped recovery vault to help mitigate a ransomware attack. According to the […]
Cybersecurity officials the, FBI, Microsoft and Sophos are warning organizations to limit their use of some legitimate tools as they are being leveraged by the BianLian group, a ransomware group that has targeted organizations with a data extortion model, bypassing the need to encrypt victims’ data. According to a joint advisory from CISA, its Australian […]
Cyberattacks are continuing to target VMware ESXi vSphere hypervisors, with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike reporting today that ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platforms are increasingly being leveraged to deploy Linux versions of ransomware tools. According to the cybersecurity giant, these tools are specifically designed to affect VMware’s ESXi vSphere hypervisor. The company’s research into these kind of attacks date […]
Ahead of the 2023 RSA Conference, Proofpoint, Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based cybersecurity and compliance company, unveiled a host of innovations across its Aegis Threat Protection, Identity Threat Defense and Sigma Information Protection platforms. The company’s latest solutions empower organizations to stop malicious email attacks, detect and prevent identity-based threats and defend sensitive data from theft, loss and insider […]
With April’s U.S. tax deadline, cybercriminals have sprung into action. For one, a devious Emotet malware phishing campaign has been launched, masquerading as official W-9 tax form emails sent from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A malicious group known as Tactical#Octopus is also on the prowl and looking to spread malware through fake file downloads […]
In a move that represents a growing offensive against cybercriminals, Microsoft, cybersecurity firm Fortra and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center have taken action to disrupt ransomware groups that have been observed attacking healthcare organizations in more than 19 countries. According to Microsoft, the company’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), Fortra and Health Information Sharing and […]
The month of April has been identified as the most dangerous period in terms of ransomware attacks, according to research by end-to-end file encryption provider NordLocker. Last year, the month of April saw 294 ransomware incidents, the most attacks per month in all of 2022. Most of these attacks were carried out against U.S. and […]
With storage and backup devices often representing the last line of defense against ransomware attacks and outages, they should be as secure as possible so organizations can restore their data in a critical time of need. However, new research from cyber resilience company Continuity shows that the average enterprise storage and backup device has 14 […]
Cybersecurity insurance is becoming a popular option for organizations looking to protect themselves from the financial risks of a cyberattack, but new data shows that organizations with cyber insurance may be more appealing to ransomware attackers. According to Barracuda Networks, 77% of organizations with cyber insurance were hit by a successful ransomware attack in 2022, […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is launching its Pre-Ransomware Notificaiton Initiative designed to help organizations thwart ransomware attacks in the early stages of incidents as ransomware actors dwell in a victim’s environment before deploying the ransomware. According to CISA, that window of time–which can last from hours to days–gives the agency enough […]
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