SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Ransomware is getting worse. Cybersecurity analysts have been screaming this sentiment from the rooftops for years, but now new research examining the expanding landscape of software vulnerabilities leveraged in ransomware attacks offers up some hard numbers that put the depth of this problem into context.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2022

In 2007, Estonia was subjected to a massive cyberattack which they blamed on Russia. In a few cases, proxy groups (such as the leading ransomware group Conti) were also involved,” the report said. The attacks on Estonia were DDOS attacks that brought down Internet infrastructure and major websites in the country. Related Posts.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

In the recent case of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack , the Department of Justice and FBI were able to recover a majority of the crypto-payment made to the DarkSide ransomware group. DDoS: Overwhelming the Network. This functionality makes forging a record in a blockchain ledger extremely difficult at best.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Between high-profile ransomware attacks and mergers, it is a time of high stakes and great change for the industry. But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. Founded: 2007. Microsoft has quietly built up a large security portfolio.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

The Cisco Secure portfolio is massive, including next-generation firewalls (NGFW), MFA, vulnerability management, and DDoS protection. Launched in 2007, ExtraHop’s success as a AI-based cybersecurity vendor led to its acquisition in July 2021 by Bain Capital for $900 million. ExtraHop Networks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

An attack perpetrated by the REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service gang (aka Sodinokibi) targeting Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and their clients was discovered on July 2. It sends stolen information as a ZIP archive to the C2 (command-and-control) server, which is protected against DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

First spotted in-the-wild in 2007, the earliest known version of the ZeuS Trojan was caught stealing sensitive information from systems owned by the United States Department of Transformation. Banking trojans haven’t gone away, but in recent years their activity has been eclipsed by an epidemic of ransomware.

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