Ransom payments increased five-fold to an average $812,360 last year, the survey finds. ‘If I were a channel player, I would look at what is going wrong and worry. Some of these organizations clearly ...
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that infiltrates a computer or network and limits or restricts access to critical data by encrypting files until a ransom is paid. Ransomware attacks are on ...
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Cybersecurity firm Sophos today released its annual State of Ransomware report showing ransomware attacks nearly doubled in 2021 from the year before, according to results of a survey of 5,600 IT ...
Among a ballooning set of global ransomware perpetrators are WOLF, associated with Turkey, and OCELOT, associated with Colombia according to an annual report out today from the cybersecurity firm ...
Between law enforcement operations, REvil's second shut down, and ransomware gangs' response to the hacking of their servers, it has been quite the week. This week's biggest news is the Reuters report ...
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ivanti, the provider of the Ivanti Neurons automation platform that discovers, manages, secures, and services IT assets from cloud to edge, today announced the results ...
After a 2021 beleaguered by ransomware, attack volumes continue to balloon in 2022. In fact, a report issued Tuesday indicates that in just the first three months of this year, the volume of ...
Ransomware attackers threatened to extort $866 million from U.S. bank customers last year in a record-breaking scourge primarily perpetrated by threat actors affiliated with Russia. Processing Content ...
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A critical Apache Log4j vulnerability took the world by storm this week, and now it is being used by threat actors as part of their ransomware attacks. Last Friday, a researcher publicly released an ...