6 best practices for escaping ransomware
A complete guide to tackling ransomware attacks
Cybercrime is evolving fast, with the deployment of ransomware leading to high-profile breaches in recent years such as WannaCry and Petya. These attacks act as encouragement for hackers, and as a warning for companies across the globe.
This whitepaper offers a complete guide to ransomware attacks, asking if they really work, if you should pay, and best practices to stay vigilant.
Download it now to discover how to push back attacks.
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US gov makes $2bn investment in domestic quantum firmsNews The Department of Commerce says it wants to strengthen the country's presence in this critical technology sector
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Data center industry faces ticking power time bombNews Technical and regulatory hurdles make colocation unscalable for most developers, Wood Mackenzie has warned
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Instructure chose to a pay ransom following the Canvas cyber attack – research shows more than half of security leaders would follow suitAnalysis Opting to pay ransoms creates huge risks for enterprises – you’re relying on the word of criminals
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Ransomware negotiator sentenced for role in major cyber crime groupNews Deniss Zolotarjovs was a key player in a group associated with Conti
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Threat actors ditch ‘spray and pray’ attacks in shift to targeted exploitationNews A dip in ransomware volumes points to a more targeted approach focused on vulnerability exploitation
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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 attacks
News 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
