Ransomware made MSPeasy
The MSP's guide to saving the day
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Ransomware has emerged as a serious threat to businesses and individuals in recent years. It's unlikely that attacks will be slowing down any time soon, costs to victims spiralling up into hundreds of millions of dollars.
Ransom payments are typically fairly low, so many victims choose to pay and there's little interest in malware from law enforcement. However, paying a ransom should be avoided and it represents an opportunity to educate current clients on cyber security best practices while generating new business opportunities for MSPs.
This report will explore the ransomware in existence today and how it is spread. Plus, there's practical advice from MSPs and IT security professionals about how best to communicate the risk of ransomware to your clients.
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Google Cloud leans on Wiz to usher in a new era of AI securityNews Wiz wants to deploy its agents for continuous penetration testing, and in Google it’s found a parent company that can achieve this vision at scale
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UK organizations are failing to move past basic AI use-casesNews Businesses in the UK are ramping up AI adoption, but they’re falling at key hurdles
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Security leaders overconfident about ransomware recoveryNews Few manage to recover all their data, and many experience business disruption
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German authorities want your help finding the hackers behind GandCrab and REvilNews Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin and Anatoly Sergeevitsch Kravchuk are believed to have made millions from ransomware as a service schemes
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The rise of teen hackers ‘makes for a good headline’, but cyber crime activities peak later in life
News With family responsibilities and mortgages to pay, it's not teenagers dishing out malware or carrying out cyber extortion
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Ransomware gangs are using employee monitoring software as a springboard for cyber attacksNews Two attempted attacks aimed to exploit Net Monitor for Employees Professional and SimpleHelp
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Ransomware gangs are sharing virtual machines to wage cyber attacks on the cheap – but it could be their undoingNews Thousands of attacker servers all had the same autogenerated Windows hostnames, according to Sophos
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Google issues warning over ShinyHunters-branded vishing campaignsNews Related groups are stealing data through voice phishing and fake credential harvesting websites
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The FBI has seized the RAMP hacking forum, but will the takedown stick? History tells us otherwiseNews Billing itself as the “only place ransomware allowed", RAMP catered mainly for Russian-speaking cyber criminals
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Everything we know so far about the Nike data breachNews Hackers behind the WorldLeaks ransomware group claim to have accessed sensitive corporate data
