Cybercrime

The Coveware Quarterly Ransomware Report describes ransomware incident response trends during Q2 of 2020. Ransomware attacks against enterprises forked in Q2 between big game attacks and an increase in new RaaS variants targeting small businesses.

Yoda once said that "the fear of loss is a path to the dark side," and while he wasn't talking about the latest cybersecurity threat, he could easily have been.

As ransomware attacks increase, hackers are diversifying their tactics to get victims to hand over larger sums of money. We investigate the rise of double extortion attacks

Distributed denial of service attack from overseas has left stock exchange offline for days

HR leaders and their teams have an important role to serve in enterprise information security. Here are five ways they can help mitigate cyberthreats and provide user education.

Web defacement is a form of hacking that involves altering the content of a website, resulting in repairs to the website code, loss of revenue, internal loss of productivity, and reputational damage.

The operators of the Avaddon ransomware seem to be tooling up to leak the data of their victims in addition to holding it to ransom, Cofense researchers confirm

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252488158/Avaddon-ransomware-operators-having-a-go-at-double-extortion

APT group behind the infamous WannaCry incident is targeting cryptocurrency operators, according to new research

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252488067/North-Koreas-Lazarus-targets-cryptocurrency-vertical

Think you have heard from HM Revenue & Customs with an email, call, or text message notifying you that you might be eligible for government payments/rebate due to the Covid-19 pandemic?

One month after the notorious 'meow' attacks were first detected, the threat to misconfigured databases exposed on the internet shows little sign of slowing down.

https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252488104/Meow-attacks-top-25000-exposed-databases-services