Tag: Government
EMEA’s mainstream media’s spotlight on ransomware attacks may have dimmed over the last 18 months but that doesn’t mean the threat has disappeared. There is certainly no room for complacency, and we would do well to pay attention to recent events across the pond. Far from diminishing in disruptive impact, ransomware attacks appear to have…
Read MoreRansomware is not the hottest topic around right now. But that may be deceptive as to its proliferation, because figures show it is still very much alive and kicking. It only takes a quick glance at the rest of the world to see the devastating effects ransomware attacks can have on public and private sector…
Read MoreSo How Good Are Sectors for Predicting Risk? Based on these analyses, it appears that the answer is “not bad, but it depends.” On one hand, we can identify specific patterns that seem to map to characteristics about those sectors. We already knew that the Retail Trade sector is heavily targeted by attacks that are…
Read MoreAs Covid-19 drives a higher volume of transactions online, the dance between cyber-criminals and security professionals has stepped up a beat. Enterprises are re-assessing the robustness of their systems, while bad actors are on the look-out for vulnerabilities to exploit. Under lockdown measures, organisations have been forced to reassess their physical environments. Now they must…
Read MoreIntroduction Disclosures of breaches often include mention of a “web shell” to further attacker ends. As one example, the Clop ransomware group (also known as ‘Lace Tempest,’ TA505, and FIN11) has used web shells as part of their attack chains in both the Kiteworks Accellion FTA breach of 2020 and the plethora of breaches related…
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