A Cisco Talos report showed that the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, and the BlackMatter ransomware operation had significant similarities in tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Ransomware groups have hit 2,860 major organizations last year, up from 1,460 in 2020, with most of the targeted entities located in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and Japan.
Conversation hijacking phishing attacks, which involve threat actors infiltrating ongoing email threads to avert suspicion, have increased by nearly 270% last year.
U.S. critical infrastructure organizations across several industries — including government, financial services, and critical manufacturing — are being targeted by the AvosLocker ransomware-as-a-service operation.
The FBI's newly released cybercrime statistics for 2021 show that business email compromise remains far and away the largest digital crime. The numbers are not even close. Ye all eyes are on ransomware. The visibility gap is substantial.
Kronos is back online after a months-long ransomware-related outage. But a lawsuit filed against Scripps Health this week alleges employees still haven’t been paid in full for their overtime hours, disrupted by the cyberattack.
After passing cyber incident reporting legislation, lawmakers in the House and Senate turn their attention to the federal government's cybersecurity hierarchy and cloud security certification program.
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