Perhaps the most surprising statistics to come out of a new CISOs Connect report, Ransomware In Focus, available here, are that only about 60% of respondents felt they had good data backup and recovery technology, while around a quarter had something in place but wanted to upgrade to something better, and just under 16% had […]
Why, four days ago, did the REvil ransomware gang’s leak site the “Happy Blog” go offline? It looks like FBI, working with Cyber Command, the Secret Service and agencies from several other countries, successfully used one of ransomware gangs’ own favourite tactics, compromised backups, against them. Following much publicised attacks on critical infrastructure, including REVil’s […]
While the COVID-19 pandemic has been raging, workers obliged to log in from home have become increasingly vulnerable to hacks as criminals look to exploit the attack surface that more remote working has created. In a report published in April, security software firm Sophos found that 37% of organisations were hit by ransomware in 2021 […]
81% of the healthcare organisations operating in the UK have experienced a ransomware attack in the last 12 months, according to a study written by Obrela Security Industries. Based on a survey of 100 cybersecurity professionals working in the sector, the researchers found that 38% of organisations chose to pay a ransom demand to get […]
A report commissioned by Google puts the UK at number 10 on a list of countries worst affected by ransomware and facing a similar number of active strains as South Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, and Iran. GandCrab is the most active ransomware ‘family’, according to the report, claiming more than 54,000 […]
The Sinclair Broadcast Group, the US’s second largest TV channel operator, covering 40% of American households, revealed on Monday that a number of its servers and workstations had been encrypted with ransomware, disrupting its back office operations. A digital forensics company has been hired to investigate the breach. It’s too early to ascertain exactly what […]