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How Manufacturers Can Fight Back Against Ransomeware

Ransomware attacks are rising. Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigation Report found that nearly a quarter of all cyber attacks in the manufacturing industry are ransomware attacks. Why the surge? While the world is still recovering from the pandemic, global markets are dealing with massive economic uncertainty and recession fears. And cybercriminals sense an opportunity.

How Cybersecurity Trends Drive Organizational Changes | Industry Panel Discussion

Ransomware threats, the many flavors of trust, and the war for talent, are just a few of the cybersecurity trends challenging (and changing) today’s organizations. Watch as CyberArk’s Regional Manager, Amit Grinman, as he speaks with Shay Nahmany, Director of IT at Israel National Digital Agency, Shelly Brownshtein, Head Of Cyber Security At Menora Mivtachim Insurance, and Yossi Marmarali, Director, Security Engineering & Business Information Security Officer at Netafim and Dura-Line (Orbia), about staying secure and addressing these concerns head-on.

Redline Infostealer Analysis (Part 1)

This blog post will provide an analysis of the malicious Redline Infostealer payloads which have been taken from a real life malware incident, responded to and triaged by the ThreatSpike SOC team. This analysis will be broken down to demonstrate, describe and explain the various stages of the attack chain.

Cloud Threats Memo: Threat Actors Continue to Abuse Cloud Services to Deliver Malware in 2023

Our most recent Cloud and Threat Report highlighted how threat actors abuse cloud services (with a special focus on cloud storage apps) to deliver malicious content (and yes, OneDrive leads the chart of the most exploited apps). To confirm that this trend will likely continue in 2023, researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an active campaign, launched by a threat actor named Earth Bogle.

Why Ransomware Remains a Major Threat for 2023

Ransomware has gone global. While 2022 saw a reprieve in the sheer number of ransomware attacks (the attack rate dropped at the same time as the war between Russia and Ukraine began), it also saw the rise of ransomware-as-a-service, the proliferation of attacks of major organizations, and attacks that stretched across time zones and borders. In 2022, nine of our top 20 breaches involved ransomware (45%), affecting millions of individuals and their private data. That is up 15% over 2021.

Ransomware in the Construction Industry: How Unregulated Data Makes it a Soft Target | John Goecke

In this session, John Goecke (CEO) discusses with Venky how everything changed for StratusVue after a ransomware attack in 2018. He shares how the construction industry is a soft target as there is no regulatory oversight, unlike in banking and healthcare, and security is always an afterthought for business owners. Along with all this, he explains complex terms like zero-day, zero-trust, FedRAMP, etc., in a highly rudimentary way.

Ransomware Recovery: RTO and Optimizing the Recovery Process

Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) are on everyone’s mind. It bears repeating, one of the most fundamental ways to reduce recovery time from a ransomware or cybersecurity attack is being well prepared and ready to take actions quickly and effectively. This is one of the many variables firmly within a customer’s control and key to a faster and more efficient recovery process. A ransomware attack can be one of the most stressful events an organization and its employees will encounter.