SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2025

A recent report from Tenable highlights how DeepSeek R1, an open-source AI model, can generate rudimentary malware, including keyloggers and ransomware. Key findings from Tenable's report Tenable's research team investigated DeepSeek R1's ability to generate malicious code, specifically a keylogger and a simple ransomware program.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The State of Cybersecurity in Canada 2025 report, published by the Canadian Cybersecurity Network (CCN) and the Security Architecture Podcast , delivers an in-depth analysis of the evolving threat landscape, emerging risks, and strategic recommendations for Canadian organizations. Key findings: the cyber threat landscape in 2025 1.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

The DBIR breaks down breach trends across industries: Financial and Insurance: Heavily targeted by credential stuffing and phishing; fastest detection rates. Healthcare: Insider threats and error-related breaches dominate. Public Sector: DoS attacks and ransomware remain major concerns. Jason Soroko , Sr.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 3, 2025

Reports suggest their systems were infiltrated as early as February 2025, with sensitive data reportedly stolen and ransomware deployed to disrupt their infrastructure. Cybersecurity isnt just an IT problem; its central to risk management, operational continuity, and customer trust.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 17, 2025

Although there remains some ambiguity over whether ransomware was employed, the Play ransomware gang later claimed responsibility , alleging that sensitive data, such as payroll records, contracts, tax documents, and customer financial information, was exfiltrated.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 15, 2021

While October is designated as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, focusing on keeping your company and customers safe should be a constant priority, especially with the growing number and sophistication of ransomware attacks worldwide. This is the classic attack scenario that comes to mind for most folks when you hear the word “ransomware.”

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

Direct Access and Privileges: Valid VPN credentials grant threat actors unrestricted access to sensitive systems, often with elevated privileges that mirror those of legitimate employees or administrators. Detection Rules: We recommend implementing the following detection rules to counter the exploitation of CVE-2018-13379.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While American Water has not disclosed the exact method of attack, such incidents often involve tactics like ransomware or phishing , where hackers gain access to sensitive systems and either steal or encrypt data, demanding a ransom in return for restoring access.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A discovery of seven zero day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Operating System has reportedly put billions of PC users to risk. The good news is that the security researchers from the threat detection and response firm discovered the 7 flaws in April 2021, and then issued a warning about the flaw/s to Microsoft in May 201.

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Digital Guardian

JULY 13, 2021

The NYDFS has issued guidance for financial services companies on how to reduce the risk of ransomware attacks - like having a capable endpoint threat detection and response (EDR) solution in place.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 16, 2024

From ransomware to sophisticated state-sponsored attacks, no organization is immune. Types of Recent Cyber Attacks Ransomware Attacks : Ransomware continues to be one of the most prevalent and damaging types of cyber attacks. This significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized access to accounts and systems.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

The REvil ransomware family has been in the news due to its involvement in high-profile incidents, such as the JBS cyberattack and the Kaseya supply chain attack. Yet this threat carries a much more storied history , with varying functionality from one campaign to the next. Creating a mutex. This is a common occurrence with software.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

Key Findings The last quarter of 2024 proved to be a pivotal period for ransomware activity, marked by emerging threats and unexpected shifts among established groups. Ransomware Activity Hits All-Time High in December Ransomware attacks have been climbing steadily over the past few years, despite some temporary dips along the way.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 25, 2020

In fact, Trend Micro, who was the first to launch an XDR solution, optimizing threat detection and response across all critical vectors, found itself in a position last February to spin-out a set of contracted services it had been incubating. Something needs to be done to flatten the cyber risk curve. I’ll keep watch.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 25, 2025

The meteoric rise of Generative AI (GenAI) enables businesses to process data faster, and in previously unimagined ways, but it also creates a slew of new risks around data privacy, security, and potential leaks. Adding Data Risk Intelligence to the Mix However, data protection needs to be proactive and not reactive.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2022

Lapsus$ Ransomware gang is looking for insiders willing to sell remote access to major technology corporations and ISPs. Thursday, March 10, Lapsus$ ransomware gang announced they’re starting to recruit insiders employed within major technology giants and ISPs, such companies include Microsoft, Apple, EA Games and IBM.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has uncovered a new ransomware threat actor, Storm-050, targeting various critical sectors in the U.S., They stole credentials and used them to gain control of the network, eventually creating persistent backdoor access to the cloud environment and deploying ransomware to the on-premises.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 22, 2024

On July 17, cybersecurity experts gathered at Cecil College for the Cybersecurity in Agriculture Forum to discuss the escalating threats to digital information and privacy across all sectors, specifically agriculture. Cyberattacks can lead to significant financial losses, operational disruptions, and reputational damage for corporations.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2024

Ransomware has been a daunting threat to organizations worldwide for decades. Recent trends show that ransomware attacks continue to grow more advanced and persistent. million ransomware attacks blocked by the Zscaler cloud, amounting to a 17.8% Top ransomware trends1. ThreatLabz analyzed 4.4

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

When assessing the overall security of cloud storage and choosing a solution tailored to your business, it helps to determine its features, potential risks, security measures, and other considerations. CSP collaboration improves the security environment where there’s a need to mitigate the emerging risks quickly and comprehensively.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2025

The meteoric rise of Generative AI (GenAI) enables businesses to process data faster, and in previously unimagined ways, but it also creates a slew of new risks around data privacy, security, and potential leaks. Adding Data Risk Intelligence to the Mix However, data protection needs to be proactive and not reactive.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 19, 2022

Experts have warned that the Russia-Ukraine conflict poses an unprecedented cyber risk for U.S. Governments and Municipalities at Risk of Foreign Nation Cyber Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard. organizations as well as State and local governments and municipalities. The post Local U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2024

June 10, 2024, CyberNewsWire — AI SPERA, a leader in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) solutions, announced that it has started selling its paid threat detection data from its CTI search engine ‘ Criminal IP ‘ on the Snowflake Marketplace. Torrance, Calif.,

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This approach also helps to contain the spread of malware and ransomware, which, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report, resulted in 93% of these attacks being successful due to them having access to so many privileged user accounts.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 7, 2025

Check out best practices for shoring up data security and reducing cyber risk. 1 - CSA: How to boost data security and reduce cyber risk Risk assessment gaps. 1 - CSA: How to boost data security and reduce cyber risk Risk assessment gaps. Plus, get tips on how to improve job satisfaction among tech staff.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: On the software side of things, some exciting breakthroughs are about to gain meaningful traction in leveraging machine learning and automation to shape new security platforms and frameworks that are much better suited to helping companies implement cyber hygiene, as well as execute effective, ongoing threat detection and incident response.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Key Points Ransomware activity grew by 2.3% In the short term, we expect a gradual increase in ransomware incidents, peaking by Q4 2024. In the long term, we anticipate a greater use of large language models (LLMs) in ransomware negotiations and a rise in exfiltration-only attacks. lower than in Q3 2023. compared to Q3 2023.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The report’s findings reveal that email remains the main method of delivering ransomware, banking Trojans, and backdoors. Financial departments at high risk. The revival of ransomware.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Leaders guiding their organisations today need to know how to balance AI’s benefits – like real-time threat detection, rapid response, and automated defences – with new risks and complexities. That’s why it’s essential to promote security awareness and training on AI-specific threats, said Craig Balding.

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Anton on Security

APRIL 28, 2021

What are you not detecting? OK, what threats are you NOT detecting? What I mean here is: are you thinking about these: Threats that you don’t need to detect due to your risk profile, your threat assessment, etc. Threats that you do need to detect, but don’t know how. Still didn’t help?

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 27, 2025

Streamlined RaaS Operations: The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ecosystem has become more efficient, with affiliates adopting new, more specialized strategies like help-desk scams to accelerate and refine their attacks. Buyers of these credentials include ransomware affiliates, un-affiliated threat actors, and IABs.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 24, 2021

All detections are presented in a context-rich manner, which gives users the ability to drill into the specific security events that support the threat detections grouped eventually into alerts. This is where global threat alerts saves you time, investigating alerts and accelerating resolution. Rich detection portfolio.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 12, 2023

Understanding the risks associated with SaaS applications cannot be overstated as the vast majority of them do not offer enterprise-grade data protection or anything close it. SaaS Application Cyber Defense: Malware and ransomware attacks pose a significant threat to SaaS applications.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 10, 2023

The constant evolution of the digital world has not only presented an abundance of opportunities, but also raised an equal amount of security challenges, ransomware being one of the most sinister. The underlying problem we sought to address was the ability to automatically recover hosts from a ransomware attack.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 8, 2025

These threat actors employ basic intrusion techniques, but due to poor cyber hygiene and exposed assets, their actions can lead to significant consequences, including defacement, configuration changes, operational disruptions, and, in severe cases, physical damage. Change default passwords to unique and strong ones.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The notorious LockBit ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the attack on IMS, saying they encrypted more than 2,000 IMS systems. Cybersecurity experts say this latest breach underscores risks in the interconnected financial sector, especially regarding third-party vendor management.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 20, 2025

A few examples of visualizations role in cybersecurity include: Threat Intelligence Dashboards : Aggregating and displaying global attack trends, allowing analysts to stay informed about the latest threats. Vulnerability Management Heat Maps: Highlighting areas of a system with the highest risk, helping prioritize patching efforts.

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