In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including why security teams are still unprepared for cyberattacks over weekends and holidays, which experts warn is when attackers love to strike.
Security And Financial Impacts Are Felt
When A Collective Defense Is Hampered
Businesses today are building new ways to digitally connect
with their customers by quickly adopting new technology while
maintaining legacy investments. This brings about challenges for the
security team as business data and tooling...
Cyber attacks happen — that’s a static fact of today’s cyber-fueled world. What isn’t static is how and where these attacks happen. Opportunities for attackers abound as networks grow more complex and orgs migrate (or come to life) in the cloud. Today’s attackers can spend months hiding in an environment,...
Don't click phishy links. Everyone knows that. But are your end users prepared to quickly identify today's tricky tactics being used by bad actors? Probably not. Cybercriminals have moved beyond simple bait and switch domains. They're now employing a variety of advanced social engineering techniques to entice your...
As the universe of sophisticated cyber threats, such as ransomware, continues to grow in volume and effectiveness, organisations in every industry are moving from a threat prevention strategy to a cyber resilience model for holistic cyber security.
Organisations acknowledge that while blocking threats is still a...
ISMG editors discuss: U.S. Sen. Angus King on the need for the federal government to form a clear, declarative cyber deterrence strategy, how CISA is ramping up efforts to support critical infrastructure defenses and the potential implications of the U.S. blacklisting of Israeli spyware firms.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features insight from U.S. Sen. Angus King on why the federal government needs to declare a clear response to cybercriminals in order to deter them. Also featured: Ransomware affiliates gain power and promoting diversity of thought in cybersecurity.
In ransomware attacks, cybercriminals attack through the backups because they know that security practitioners rely on backups to save themselves after a ransomware attack. Therefore, it is essential to have multiple backups, says Tom Kellermann, head of cybersecurity strategy at VMware.
The actor behind the cyberattack targeting SolarWinds customers - Nobelium - is continuing its campaign to target the global IT supply chain, according to a new advisory from Microsoft, which says 140 resellers and tech service providers have been notified that they have been targeted by the group.
The outages of the notorious REvil - aka Sodinokibi - ransomware operation have been due to a coordinated law enforcement effort involving the U.S. and foreign partners, aimed at disrupting the group's attack capabilities, Reuters reports.
The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security has issued an interim final rule to curb and control the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of certain offensive cyber tools that are used in surveillance of private citizens and other malicious activities that undermine the nation's security.
The number of cyber intrusions and attacks targeting the Electric sector is increasing from Activity Groups (AG), or threat groups, and from ransomware operations.
In 2020, Dragos identified three new AGs targeting the Electric sector. Of the AGs we are actively tracking, two-thirds of the groups targeting...
Industrial asset owners know that protecting the integrity of their systems is critical for maintaining operations, but the challenges around cybersecurity vulnerabilities make that job much harder. As environments become more connected, and attackers become more advanced, staying a step ahead has never been more...
How many ways do U.S. businesses need to be told to lock down their systems to safeguard themselves from ransomware? That's the focus of a new, joint cybersecurity advisory from the U.S. government pertaining to BlackMatter, following an advisory issued last month about Conti.
Social media platform Twitter has suspended two accounts that were being used by members of the DPRK, a North Korean government-backed threat group, according to Adam Weidemann, an analyst with the Google Threat Analysis Group. The accounts allegedly targeted security researchers around the globe.
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