Security News
![Statistics Say Don't Pay the Ransom; but Cleanup and Recovery Remains Costly](/static/build/img/news/alt/DDoS-small.jpg)
Businesses have lost faith in the ability of traditional anti-virus products to detect and prevent ransomware. Fifty-three percent of U.S companies infected by ransomware in 2017 blamed legacy AV...
![Not all who pay a ransom successfully recover their compromised data](/static/build/img/news/alt/mac-stats-small.jpg)
A new report by the CyberEdge Group found that 55 percent of responding organizations were compromised by ransomware in 2017, down from 61 percent in 2016. How victims responded to ransomware...
![Largest Ever 1.3Tbps DDoS Attack Includes Embedded Ransom Demands](/static/build/img/news/alt/phishing-statistics-cybersecurity-scaled-small.jpg)
On Tuesday, 27 February, three major DDoS mitigation service providers (Akamai, Cloudflare and Arbor) warned that they had seen spikes in a relatively rare form of reflection/amplification DDoS...
![Week in review: DoS attacks against hard disk, ethical hacking, and the rise of ransom hacks](/static/build/img/news/alt/data-breach-stats-small.jpg)
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Norwegian health authority hacked, patient data of nearly 3 million citizens possibly compromised Hackers have...
![Why Some Healthcare Entities Pay Ransoms](/static/build/img/news/alt/healthcare-small.jpg)
Indiana Hospital Pays After Ransomware Attack, Citing Time Needed to Restore SystemsA recent incident involving an Indiana hospital that publicly admitted to paying a $55,000 ransom to unlock data...
![US hospital paid $55,000 ransom to hackers despite having backups](/static/build/img/news/alt/healthcare-cybersecurity-statistics-small.jpg)
A US hospital has decided to pay a ransom of 4 bitcoin to regain access to some 1,400 files locked by attackers. Hancock Health, a regional hospital based in Greenfield, Indiana, said they’d...
![The rise of ransom hacks, and the potential impact on your business](/static/build/img/news/alt/cyberattack-stats-small.jpg)
The percentage of companies reporting financially motivated cyber attacks has doubled over the past two years, with 50% of companies experiencing a cyber attack motivated by ransom in the past...
![UK shipbroker Clarksons refuses to pay hackers ransom for stolen data](/static/build/img/news/alt/cyberattack-statistics-1-small.jpg)
London-based shipbroking firm Clarksons has suffered a data breach and refuses to pay the attackers to prevent the stolen data from being publicly released. About the Clarksons data breach “Our...
![Ransomware victims are paying the ransom in record numbers](/static/build/img/news/alt/ransomware-statistics-small.jpg)
Intermedia examined the critical security behavioral habits of more than 1,000 office workers. Ransomware attacks continue to grow exponentially The threat of ransomware, when hackers infect...
![Files Encrypted by Bad Rabbit Recoverable Without Paying Ransom](/static/build/img/news/alt/DDoS-small.jpg)
Some users may be able to recover the files encrypted by the Bad Rabbit ransomware without paying the ransom, Kaspersky researchers discovered after analyzing the malware’s encryption...