Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

Microsoft is warning organizations to deploy protections against a new strain of PonyFinal ransomware that has been in the wild over the past two months. PonyFinal is Java-based ransomware that is manually distributed by threat actors. PonyFinal is Java-based ransomware that is manually distributed by threat actors.

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Webroot

APRIL 21, 2021

Although cybercriminal activity throughout 2020 was as innovative as ever, some of the most noteworthy threat activity we saw came from the old familiar players, namely ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. Ransomware. One of the newer trends we saw in ransomware was that of data extortion.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Lucy’s’s software allows companies to easily set-up customizable mock attacks to test employees’ readiness to avoid phishing, ransomware and other attacks with a social engineering component. This is stunning: phishing attacks soared in 2018, rising 250% between January and December, according to Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Today’s columnist, Troy Wachter of Cyberint, says defeating ransomware groups like the one that hit Colonial Pipeline will take teamwork across departments and threat intelligence tools that show how and where specific threats have originated and how they are evolving. OrbitalJoe CreativeCommons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 12, 2020. The Trickbot infrastructure was used by crooks to compromise systems and carry out human-operated campaigns, notably its use for the deployment of the Ryuk ransomware. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ” concludes Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. billion in 2021, and growing concerns over data security , software supply chains , and ransomware suggest the market will remain strong through economic ups and downs. New Enterprise Associates (NEA).

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a conversation with reporters after a briefing by the South Korean National Intelligence Service, Ha Tae-keung, an opposition member of the parliamentary intelligence panel, said Pfizer was among those targeted in a cyberattack but gave no further specifics on the timing or success of the breach, according to Reuters, which first reported it.

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