The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. Here are five notable historical events that influenced cybersecurity assessment and transformed it into what it is today: The Battle of Midway (1942).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Microsoft first noticed that to conceal malicious traffic, the threat actor routes it through compromised small office and home office (SOHO) network devices, including routers, firewalls, and VPN hardware. critical infrastructure in the event of a major crisis or conflict with the United States. ” continues the report.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Ransomware is a growing threat to every organisation on the planet; it seems we can’t go a day without seeing another high-profile ransomware attack being detailed in mainstream media. Let us take a quick look at how companies get hit by ransomware. My five key ransomware attack preparation steps are as follows.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

Researchers spotted a new piece of ransomware named Epsilon Red that was employed at least in an attack against a US company. Researchers from Sophos spotted a new piece of ransomware, named Epsilon Red, that infected at least one organization in the hospitality sector in the United States. ps1 through 12.ps1 ps1 through 12.ps1

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Since it’s a live event, 100 percent uptime is imperative for the Super Bowl, ensuring fans don’t miss a moment of the action. The Super Bowl is the largest sporting and television event in the United States, with nearly 100 million viewers. Securing an event of this magnitude can be quite a challenge.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 11, 2022

Next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks with AT&T Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) solutions are designed to help protect enterprises while optimizing security performance for these new use cases. They also help reduce complexity by assisting the customer with ongoing configuration changes to their firewall policies.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Ransomware is everywhere these days, striking fear into the hearts of IT and business managers alike. And studies support that perception, showing ransomware growing in both prevalence and effectiveness. Best Ransomware Removal Tools. Here we’ll focus on removal tools. Protect against cloud threats and misconfiguration.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This intel often gets leveraged by firewall suppliers who tap into a small selection of what they figure to be the most helpful threat feeds to configure their products. Rashed “The RuleGATE sits in front of the firewall and looks at the traffic coming into the network — and leaving the network,” Rashed told me.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The good news is that security teams can learn to anticipate these events and know exactly what to do to stop or prevent them. Defending against DDoS attacks has long depended on traditional measures like firewalls and rate limiting. To stay ahead, organizations must turn to artificial intelligence.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Firewalls, intrusion detection systems, regular patching, and endpoint protection act as the digital equivalent of preventive pest spray. CISO takeaway: Cyber threats evolve constantly, with attackers using sophisticated tactics like ransomware-as-a-service or AI-driven malware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

A cyberattack on gambling giant IGT disrupted portions of its IT systems China-linked APT Gelsemium uses a new Linux backdoor dubbed WolfsBane Microsoft seized 240 sites used by the ONNX phishing service U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 Cisco Umbrella , analyzing the threat environment for 2022, found that 86% of organizations experienced phishing, 69% experienced unsolicited crypto mining, 50% were affected by ransomware, and 48% experienced some form of information-stealing malware. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

A new ransomware strain named Rorschach ransomware supports the fastest file-encrypting routine observed to date. Check Point Research (CPR) and Check Point Incident Response Team (CPIRT) researchers detected a previously unknown ransomware strain, dubbed Rorschach ransomware , that was employed in attack against a US-based company.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The research shows that cyber threats like ransomware have become a top priority for business executives and boards of directors,” said Jon Oltsik, an analyst with ESG. Not surprisingly, 46% said ransomware protection was one of their top five spending priorities. It can detect and respond to known and unknown threats.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

This year we saw the reemergence of old vectors: from ransomware & trojans, to supply chain attacks. Using the Cisco Secure Endpoint APIs, partner integrations provide analysts with rich threat information and actions on endpoint events; like retrieving endpoint information, hunting indicators on endpoints, searching events, etc.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition, it allows you to collect hourly events from Cisco Secure Endpoint through the USM Anywhere Job Scheduler. The Cisco Secure Endpoint App on ServiceNow provides users with the ability to integrate event data from the Cisco Secure Endpoint into ServiceNow by creating ITSM incidents. Read more here. Read more here. Sumo Logic.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Certain threat types, like ransomware and malware, are more prominent and therefore must be fought with the appropriate resources. These types of high profile, high impact attacks will only increase as more hacker enthusiasts respond to the lucrative incentives of ransomware payouts. Defining Advanced Persistent Threat (APT).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

August 2 – Garmin allegedly paid for a decryptor for WastedLocker ransomware. BleepingComputer researchers confirmed that Garmin has received the decryption key to recover their files encrypted with the WastedLocker Ransomware. April 26 – Hackers exploit SQL injection zero-day issue in Sophos firewall.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 12, 2025

Between September 1, 2024, and February 28, 2025, threat actors ramped up efforts to exploit this sector through spearphishing, impersonation campaigns, ransomware, and vulnerabilities in external remote services. One ransomware group, Akira, has demonstrated a specific focus on casinos.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

The $40 million ransomware attack on the district was one of a wave of cases targeting educational institutions over the last couple of weeks. Broward County’s case was one of several ransomware attacks that hit educational institutions in the past two weeks. Kovalev said we can expect ransomware attacks to grow more sophisticated.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Back in June, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an advisory that married together two of today’s major cybersecurity concerns: remote access technology and ransomware. They can steal information, edit documents, send emails that look like they’re from your boss, or even install ransomware. going to www.hivesystems.io).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

Sophos and Fortinet both appear on our list of the top next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) , and while both offer very good security at their price points, they serve very different markets. If you’re just looking for a firewall with good security, Sophos will do. Fortinet offers virtual firewalls too for hybrid cloud use cases.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 29, 2018

One of the tremendous threats to business-critical data today is ransomware. Ransomware attempts to extort money from businesses and individuals by holding data for ransom. Both of these attacks serve as a vivid reminder at just how dangerous ransomware infection can be as well as the need for ensuring your data is safe.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2021

Product categories such as intrusion prevention systems (IPS), anti-spam, unified threat intelligence (UTM), security information and event management (SIEM), next-generation firewall (NGFW), The post 4 Startups Driving Cybersecurity Innovation appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 24, 2023

Cisco is aware of reports that Akira ransomware threat actors have been targeting Cisco VPNs that are not configured for multi-factor authentication to infiltrate organizations, and we have observed instances where threat actors appear to be targeting organizations that do not configure multi-factor authentication for their VPN users.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Security information and event management, or SIEM, could yet turn out to be the cornerstone technology for securing enterprise networks as digital transformation unfolds. Related: How NSA cyber weapon could be used for a $200 billion ransomware caper. Exabeam is a bold upstart in the SIEM space. Poor usage.

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Webroot

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s important for a business to be prepared with an exercised business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plan plan before its hit with ransomware so that it can resume operations as quickly as possible. It’s also essential to ensure end-users are trained on ransomware threats as a part of a good security awareness training program.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

As threats mount from ransomware gangs , Russian-backed hacker groups , and other nation-sponsored attackers and as the growth in remote work makes security management increasingly complicated, many companies are finding it makes sense to turn to a managed security service provider (MSSP) for help with handling an extremely complex threat landscape.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We’ll get into specifics below, but here are five steps to prevent ransomware attacks, along with links to jump ahead: Harden against attacks : Patch, update, and change settings to harden resources against attacks. Hardening includes, but is not limited to: Block unused ports on servers and firewalls.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2022

The alarms were triggered when events from Trend Micro showed assets using Server Message Block (SMB) port 445 in which a single source was communicating with multiple destinations. Events search. This analysis revealed all of the internal assets and their events’ sources and destinations. Event deep dive.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

Cisco Security was honored to be a sponsor of the 24th Black Hat USA 2021 Conference – the internationally recognized cybersecurity event series providing the security community with the latest cutting-edge research, developments and training. In addition, Matt personally prefers the newer MFA system than the age-old firewall system.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2022

Each firewall, IDS, MFA, and email security is built to protect and stop cyber attacks. While enforcement of FERPA is left to the department of education, there is some sense of data accountability and disclosure of events. In the case of ransomware, should the organization pay the ransom? Distortion or reality?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2020

I’ve written about the how SIEMs ingest log and event data from all across hybrid networks, and about how UEBA and SOAR technologies have arisen in just the past few years to help companies try to make sense of it all, even as catastrophic breaches persist. launch at RSA 2020. Or at least it should be.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ransomware group BlackCat has claimed responsibility for the attack. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the ransomware group, which is also referred to as ALPHV, had compromised more than 60 entities in early 2022. In an SEC filing on Nov. 29 , FNF reported that the company formally contained the incident on Nov.

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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. Gartner gave it top place in unified threat management (UTM), and it was named a Leader in next-gen firewalls (NGFW). It offers firewalls, endpoint protection, cloud access and more. Learn more about Fortinet.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

These platforms make it possible for security teams to analyze consolidated threat feeds from various external alerts and log events. TIPs contextualize these threats, offering security teams more information, usually at a faster rate than vendor threat feeds.

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