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Most ransomware attacks take place during the night or over the weekend

FireEye: 27% of all ransomware attacks take place during the weekend, 49% after working hours during weekdays.

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

Albany Airport pays hackers ransom, regains data from computers

John Cropley provides an update to earlier reports concerning the ransomware attack Christmas day on Albany International...

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

These Highly Exploited Vulnerabilities Indicate Organizations are Still Failing to Apply Patches

​Researchers at Recorded Future have revealed a list of top vulnerabilities that saw mass exploitation from threat actors in 2019. Six of these commonly exploited vulnerabilities for the year are repeats from 2018. Apparently, all these repeated vulnerabilities are related to Microsoft products. Although patches for all these reported vulnerabilities already exist, software patching is often not performed in a timely manner by companies and individuals.

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Widely Known Flaw in Pulse Secure VPN Being Used in Ransomware Attacks

New Year's Eve attack on currency exchange service Travelex may have involved use of the flaw.

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15.5.2020
Ransomware,Unpatched Vulnerabilities

RevengeHotels: cybercrime targeting hotel front desks worldwide

RevengeHotels is a targeted cybercrime malware campaign against hotels, hostels, hospitality and tourism companies, mainly, but not exclusively, located in Brazil. We have confirmed more than 20 hotels that are victims of the group.

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15.5.2020
Malware

BEC Attacks Hit More Than 2,100 Companies throughout the US

A prolific and dangerous group called Exaggerated Lion has been hitting targets in the United States with business email compromise (BEC) attacks that follow a very specific model. They have racked up thousands of attempts and hundreds of millions of dollars stolen every month. The post BEC Attacks Hit More Than 2,100 Companies throughout the US appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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15.5.2020
Business-Email-Compromise

Cost of Insider Threats Rises 31%

New study finds dramatic increase in the cost and frequency of insider threats

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15.5.2020
Insider Attacks

Racoon Malware Steals Your Data From Nearly 60 Apps

An infostealing malware that is relatively new on cybercriminal forums can extract sensitive data from about 60 applications on a targeted computer. [...]

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15.5.2020
Malware

Human-Operated Ransomware Is a Growing Threat to Businesses: Microsoft

Different from auto-spreading ransomware, these are hands-on-keyboard attacks, where attackers adapt to the compromised network’s configuration, and show extensive knowledge of systems administration.

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15.5.2020
Ransomware