Insurer Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) recently described ransomware as a “pandemic” that is spreading rapidly around the world that is being driven by three factors the emergence of ready-made and very affordable (as little as US$40 a month) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), offered by groups such as REvil and Darkside – it even comes with support! […]
After an incident that began on Friday and into Saturday, when a Tesco spokesperson confirmed that hackers attempted to “to interfere with our systems”, things appear to have returned to normal at the retail giant. During the outage shoppers were unable to order goods or track deliveries. A queuing system is now in place as […]
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 […]
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 […]