A majority of ransomware activity resulted from three leading groups. Beazley Security Labs also identified interesting trends with infostealers, including sophisticated techniques to deliver and obfuscate the malware, along with new entrants rising to fill demand.
As cybercrime expands into new realms, senior leaders from small-town school districts to Fortune 50 companies are looking for better ways to protect priceless data and fend off ransomware attacks. Many organizations are now paying small fortunes to vendors making outlandish promises—even before taking relatively simple and inexpensive steps to prevent ransomware infections and respond effectively to those that do occur.
Rapid technological advancements have forged the way forward, but security often struggles to catch up. Even savvy organizations scramble to close gaps within their environments’ armor, while a threat actor may only need to successfully exploit one to achieve their final objectives
The cyber threat landscape is continually evolving, and organizations are faced with the challenge of responding with tools and processes that may not have been initially designed with these threats in mind.
Once malicious tools have been surreptitiously placed within the boundaries of a target environment, cyberattacks are primed and ready to strike at the first command or trigger.
Unintended data disclosure is usually caused by human error, and it is a persistent risk that can be managed through good data governance and regular employee training.
You rely on vendors to help you operate efficiently, but they can also expose you to data theft, ransomware, or intrusion into your system. You can minimise this risk with the right IT security and risk management procedures.
It’s possible to spot intruders and eject them from the premises, but it’s faster, safer and less expensive to stop them at the front gate. That’s the rationale for hardening external barriers to IT systems.
Web servers are a popular target for cybercriminals, and it can be difficult to spot that a web server’s security has been compromised. Active risk management around website architecture, maintenance, and patch and vulnerability management are essential to preventing this risk.
Once a threat actor is able to penetrate a victim’s environment, they become all the more dangerous and more difficult to shake. This is often caused by the threat actor embedding themselves into the systems they were able to compromise to maintain their hard-earned, unauthorized access.
Once an email account has been compromised, bad actors will go to town, often looking for ways to defraud a company's customers, partners, or employees.
Log management is a critical component of any organization’s security posture and should be evaluated regularly as its environment changes.
The success or failure of an attack hinges on the intersection of the information attackers have gleaned about a potential target, and their ability to translate that into a weapon to use against them.