Ransomware Attack
Turn to Microsoft Endpoint Manager to Save Your Company
Remote Monitoring and Management systems (RMMs), like Kaseya, SolarWinds, ConnectWise Automate, and NinjaRMM, are useful for maintaining control over your IT systems until, of course, they become the vector through which your IT systems are destroyed. Last month, attackers associated with REvil--a Russian ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group--breached a large Florida-based RMM company called Kaseya. It was, short of SolarWinds, possibly the ...
The Kaseya Ransomware Attack SME Breakdown, DOD Data Left Unprotected, Morgan Stanley Data Breach & Email Exploitation
1. Kaseya Ransomware Attackers Demand A $70 Million Ransom An affiliate of the notorious REvil ransomware gang compromised Kaseya’s virtual systems administrator (VSA) software. The Russian-linked attackers compromised the backend architecture of the IT infrastructure management tool. They used its notification capability to send a malicious update to VSA servers running on client environments. Thus, installing a ransomware code onto ...
4 Reasons Why Ransomware Works
Putting everything else aside, there’s one thing you can’t deny about ransomware: It’s good business. After all, what would most businesses do for a 56% conversion rate? How about 56% on a $300,000 product? Ransomware, at least in the modern sense, is only about seven years old. Yet it’s already a multi-billion-dollar problem, for everyone other than the attackers ...
Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack fallout, President Biden’s executive cybersecurity order, triple extortion, Truist Bank spear-phishing campaign, AXA Insurance becomes victim
1. Congress introduced two bills in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack Following the recent ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, which caused gas shortages in several states, the U.S. Congress introduced two bipartisan bills designed to mitigate cybersecurity weaknesses across the nation’s critical infrastructure, including the oil and gas sector. The first congressional bill, the Pipeline Security Act, ...
10 Benefits of IT Automation
Lighting fast compliance, robust vulnerability and patching management, and fewer IT support tickets are just a few of the benefits you can expect by empowering your IT teams with automation.
Linux Under Cyberattack, New Phishing Attacks, MFA Pass The Cookie Hack – Cybersecurity News and Trends
File-less malware used in linux cyberattack, phishing attacks use remotely hosted images to bypass email filters, MFA PassTheCookie Hack among other cybersecurity news
SolarWinds State-Sponsored Supply Chain Attack vs. Standard Supply Chain Attacks
Supply chain attacks became a threat actor’s goldmine in 2020. With its low barrier to entry and effectiveness, different levels of threat actors continue to leverage supply chain attacks as a viable method to facilitate far-reaching nefarious activities, including espionage, sabotage, intellectual property theft, etc. Although the average supply chain attack is perpetrated by a cybercriminal with purely financial interests, ...
Our Response to the SolarWinds Hack – A Global Cyber Pledge
Why should I take the #globalcyberpledge? How we're solving cybersecurity by individuals coming together and getting educated? What is the need for continuous improvement? Our privacy and freedom are under attack by foreign, state-sponsored bad actors and we’re standing by letting it happen. Why? Because the answers are right in front of us yet we remain complacent. Back in ...
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