SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Phishing attacks, for instance, are extremely common: these are deceptive emails or messages designed to steal data. The costs of recovering from such incidents, especially for smaller organizations without cyber insurance, can be devastating. Because of this, it's crucial to understand the types of threats nonprofits face.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

Educating users to prevent common phishing attacks and auditing external-facing assets for vulnerabilities can help block LockBits likely tactics. Detecting these lookalike domains early is crucial for disrupting phishing and social engineering campaigns before they begin. to deliver timely detections for GreyMatter customers.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Offline Backups. Screenshot example. Ransomware predictions.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Whether deployed by ransomware groups or individuals via ransomware as a service (RaaS) , the most common method of ransomware deployment is a phishing email. Ransomware-proof backups: You can limit the damage caused by ransomware by maintaining an effective backup and disaster recovery plan.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Cyber Resilience Review (CRR) : The CRR assessment evaluates your organization’s operational resilience and cybersecurity practices. Phishing Campaign Assessment (PCA) : Evaluates an organization’s susceptibility and reaction to phishing emails. Take cyber insurance , for example.

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In today’s world, both small businesses and everyday consumers face a growing number of cyber threats. From ransomware attacks to phishing scams, hackers are becoming more sophisticated. For consumers: Stay alert to potential phishing attacks or scams related to global events. on an external drive or in the cloud.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

To counter these methods, organizations should prioritize educating users on phishing and social engineering techniques. English-speaking countries, particularly the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, have well-developed insurance markets and higher cybersecurity awareness, resulting in higher ransomware insurance adoption.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 27, 2020

Effectiveness of data backup strategies. Threat actors attack tactics include the following: Phishing – using a phishing email the workstation is infected and access provided to the ransomware threat actors. Unfortunately, the citizens of the country had to pay the ransom as the city had no cyber insurance.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It is hugely effective: It can protect you from stolen passwords and credential stuffing, shut out online and offline brute-force guessing attacks, and some forms of MFA will even stop phishing attempts. Make offsite, offline backups. A muli-layered approach to cyber attack prevention. Turn off RDP wherever you can.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Attackers guess the passwords easily, find them in open source code repositories, or collect them via phishing. Hunt and destroy or encrypt backups hosted in local and cloud networks as well as virtual machine snapshots. Some can’t afford not to pay, and some are covered by cyber insurance. Protect your backup systems.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. Backups aren’t working. Restoring from backup is certainly preferable to paying the bad guys for the damage they have inflicted. Ransomware today can actually look for backup files along with user data.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. This increase is likely driven by high employee turnover and easy access to phishing kits. Meanwhile, “RansomHub” is rising rapidly due to its attractive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Also anti-phishing. Create backups and secure remote access, because during COVID, [the majority of attacks] were remote access credential stuffing or credential reuse, where the remote access didn’t have MFA enabled, and it was either RDP or a VPN concentrator. Sometimes they have the cyber insurance policy.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

An organization must: Prepare a good backup policy and procedure. Paying for internal assessments and penetration tests by a third party can provide fresh thinking and a level of assurance for stakeholders such as customers, the board of directors, and the insurance company that wrote our cyber insurance policy.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2022

Cyber insurance coverage ramps up. There is also huge debate around cyber insurance and whether it is fit for purpose. Cyber insurance is designed to help protect organizations against the fallout from cyber-attacks, including covering the financial costs of paying out ransomware demands and dealing with incidents.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As long as humans are well……human, phishing attacks will lead to ransomware infecting more and more networks, and businesses, municipalities and other organizations will continue to pay whatever they must in order to regain control of their data and systems. You’re going to have personal cyber insurance.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 2, 2020

Bear in mind that your data backups will be of no use if they are also encrypted by a ransomware attack, so keep them stored separately and offline. Phishing attacks, unpatched software vulnerabilities, and ransomware attacks all amount to an exercise of futility. 1 Cyber Threat This Year. The post Ransomware Is the No.

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