Here you will find all the articles with the tag: ransomware attacks.
The attack affected hundreds of bookstores in France, Belgium and The Netherlands. The Record this week reported that a ransomware attack had targeted TiteLive, a French company. TiteLive sells cloud-based software for book sales and inventory management. Bookstores affected by the ransomware at... Read more
3 years ago
Ransomware is surging, according to the latest Global Threat Landscape Report from FortiGuard Labs. The report, released in August, gives us a good idea of what the cybersecurity landscape looks like. Threat intelligence from the first half of this year shows a tenfold increase in ransomware att... Read more
3 years ago
Rubrik and Microsoft have entered into a strategic agreement. This agreement primarily consists of an investment from Microsoft in Rubrik. This investment will allow Rubrik to bring specific products to market faster and better. In addition, it can work with Microsoft to develop solutions for Azure... Read more
3 years ago
Microsoft has announced a new ransomware detection feature for Azure customers that will alert security teams when the system spots activity potentially associated with ransomware attacks. In a blog post by Microsoft’s Sylvie Lu, we learned that Azure worked with the Microsoft Threat Intellige... Read more
3 years ago
There was a 185% increase in ransomware attacks in the US and 144% in the UK. Other targets include Germany, South Africa, and Brazil. What is happening? According to a report by SonicWall, there were 304.7 million ransomware attacks in the first half of 2021. They observed a surge in attempt... Read more
3 years ago
The damages resulting from ransomware have already risen 57x over what they were in 2015 Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that ransomware will cost its victims more around $265 billion (USD) annually by 2031. Moreover, they say that there is a new attack every 2 seconds as ransomware perpetrators... Read more
3 years ago
The hacker group responsible for the ransomware attack say they don't want to be "creating problems for society." As we reported yesterday, Colonial Pipeline last Friday took many of its systems offline in the wake of a ransomware attack. Acting "out of an abundance of caution", the company took... Read more
3 years ago
A ransomware group with a social conscience may be behind the attack A cyberattack has forced the shutdown of a major gas pipeline in the U.S. The target, Colonial Pipeline, supplies 45% of the fuels to the East Coast of the U.S. The attack against Colonial Pipeline began Friday night, accor... Read more
3 years ago
Blackberry says cyber criminals are becoming better at finding and targeting vulnerable organizations. This week, Blackberry released their 2021 BlackBerry Threat Report. The report details a sharp increase in cyberthreats facing organizations since the onset of COVID-19. The research shows ... Read more
3 years ago
Headlined by Microsoft and McAfee, a group of 19 security firms, non-profits, and tech companies announced plans to form a collective task force that will deal with the threat of ransomware. The group has been named the Ransomware Task Force (RTF) and will focus on assessing the existing technic... Read more
3 years ago
