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From WannaCry, Petya, and SamSam to Ryuk, these ransomware attacks have caused huge financial and reputation losses for both public and private sector organizations - the recent attacks on Colonial Pipeline are just the latest example. Most of successful ransomware attacks happen because organizations overlook a simple security practice.
53 percent of IT decision makers admitted that it's not possible to be prepared for all the tactics and strategies used by attackers targeting mobile devices, a survey by Sapio Research reveals. The survey also found that three quarters of IT decision makers believe their organizations are more vulnerable to mobile cyberattacks than ever before.
A recent analysis by cybersecurity company Group-IB revealed ransomware attacks doubled in 2020, while Cybersecurity Venture predicts that a ransomware attack will occur every 11 seconds in 2021. Businesses must prepare for the possibility of a ransomware attack affecting their data, services, and business continuity.
Flaws impacting millions of internet of things devices running NVIDIA's Jetson chips open the door for a variety of hacks, including denial-of-service attacks or the siphoning of data. NVIDIA released patches addressing nine high-severity vulnerabilities including eight additional bugs of less severity.
Attacks against the container infrastructure are continuing to increase in both frequency and sophistication. The attacks are becoming more evasive, while the supply chain is now targeted.
The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang have published download links for more than 700GB of archived data stolen from Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA. A set of 13 archives, allegedly containing sensitive ADATA files, have been publicly available at a cloud-based storage service, at least for some time. On Saturday, the ransomware actor published on their leak site the download links to a new set of ADATA corporate documents, warning interested parties that the links would not survive for long.
Officials at Vermont's largest hospital are still trying to determine the full financial impact of the cyberattack last October that knocked out computers affecting three hospitals in Vermont and three in New York. It took months for the University of Vermont Health Network to recover from the attack, estimated to cost upwards of $63 million.
Despite the Director of the FBI, the US Attorney General and the White House warning firms against paying cyber-related ransoms, 60 percent of organizations have admitted they would shell out funds in the event of an attack, according to a research from Harris Interactive. The study comes just days after US meat processing giant, JBS confirmed it had paid $11 million to the REvil ransomware gang, which locked its systems at the end of May. Earlier this month, Japanese multinational conglomerate, Fujifilm said it had refused to pay a ransom demand to the cyber gang that attacked its network in Japan, instead relying on backups to restore operations.
Vaccine passports challenged by data privacy and security implicationsWhile some think vaccine apps could be the key to lifting travel restrictions, challenges have arisen regarding data privacy and security implications. Apple fixes actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting older iDevicesApple has released a security update for older iDevices to fix three vulnerabilities, two of which are zero-days that are apparently actively exploited in attacks in the wild.
Deductibility is a piece of a bigger quandary stemming from the rise in ransomware attacks, in which cybercriminals scramble computer data and demand payment for unlocking the files. A ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline last month led to gas shortages in parts of the United States.