Ransomware Report 2023: Targets, Motives, and Trends
Our annual Ransomware Report shares the latest trends and developments of the most active threat groups, and their victims to help businesses better protect themselves.
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The Latest Cybersecurity News & Insights From Around The World
Active ESXiArgs Ransomware Campaign Targeting ESXi Servers Worldwide
Early Friday morning, February 3, 2023, Arctic Wolf Labs began monitoring a new ransomware campaign targeting public-facing ESXi servers. The campaign has grown exponentially over the weekend, with approximately 3,000 victims worldwide as of early-Monday morning. Based on reporting from OVH, the threat actors behind this campaign are likely leveraging a nearly two year old heap overflow vulnerability (CVE-2021-21974) in VMware ESXi’s OpenSLP service.
Hive Shutdown Incident
Ransomware is one of the most painful threats to organizations worldwide. As this industry keeps on growing both in number of groups and improved technology, every now and then global authorities are able to get their hands on individuals and important data that can mitigate and prevent this threat. This week, the FBI was able to take down the notorious Hive Ransomware group’s Onion Site.
Nevada Ransomware Campaign
Over the weekend, a relatively new ransomware group named Nevada Ransomware initiated a first massive campaign, targeting any ESXi machine that is exposed to the internet. The group seemed to compromise hundreds of servers over the weekend and caused major damage. Although the scale of this campaign is one of the biggest we have seen, it might already have a solution.
Hive Ransomware Technical Analysis and Initial Access Discovery
Hive has been seized by law enforcement, but were likely to still see these initial access methods and tactics used across other threat actor groups.
4 Strategies to Stay Secure in a Connected World
Cybersecurity is a complex term, it’s become all-encompassing and constantly evolving to include new and emerging technologies, attacks, actors, and a myriad of other points. What this means for organizations large, medium, and small is that each must have a cybersecurity plan in place. An interesting point, however, is despite the mindshare cybersecurity now enjoys, the industry itself is still in its relative infancy.
Redline Infostealer Analysis (Part 2)
Redline infostealer gathers information and steals high value data from an infected machine. The Redline infostealer is considered one of the most dangerous malware currently being used in the wild and has been used in countless trojanized software, applications, games and cracked software. In addition to data exfiltration, Redline also has the capability to connect to a command and control (C2) server to download, upload files as well as perform remote commands.
5 Data Center Security Threats Businesses Must be Aware of in 2023
As reported by CIOSEA News, global cyber attacks saw an increase by 38 percent in 2022. This is in comparison to the percentage of such attacks seen in 2021. It's an alarming situation, one that clearly shows that cyber security threats are constantly growing. In some countries, cyber attacks were more severe and greater in number than in others. DIGIT News reported that the UK saw a 77 percent increase in cyber attacks in 2022. These are astounding figures, and they all point to how dangerous cyberspace has become.
Cyber Trends for 2023: The Bots are Still Coming, but Humans are Driving Them
If one topic has been on the minds of CISOs and CIOs alike over the last three years of Covid and post-Covid hybrid enterprise work environments, it’s ransomware. A distributed tech workforce — using distributed software services — proved to be no match for highly automated ransomware bots and malware executing encryption attacks. But this year, like the end of War of the Worlds, the attacking bots may suddenly fall silent.
Rubrik Recognized as a 2023 Customers' Choice for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions on Gartner Peer Insights
Rubrik is on a mission to secure the world’s data. And our customers are at the very heart of that mission. Research from Rubrik Zero Labs’ State of Data Security report found 98% of global IT and cybersecurity leaders dealt with a cyberattack in the last year, exposing just how critical it is for businesses to have a solid data security strategy in place and a platform they can trust to protect against these ever-growing cyber threats.