The experiences of two healthcare organizations that are still recovering from recent ransomware attacks after they refused to pay a ransom illustrate the challenges these incidents pose long after the initial attack.
Choice Hotels says about 700,000 guest records were exposed after one of its vendors copied data from its systems. Fraudsters discovered the unsecured database and tried to hold the hotel chain to ransom, which it ignored.
Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs global threat research team is creating research playbooks that provide deep-dive analysis of not only threat trends, but also cybercriminal and adversary tools and techniques. Derek Manky and Tony Giandomenico discuss the playbook model and how it can help in the fight against cybercrime.
A new strain of ransomware called MegaCortex is beginning to fill part of the void left by GandCrab and other variants that have been discontinued, targeting large corporations with huge ransom demands, according to a new analysis released Monday by Accenture's iDefense.
FireEye and AWS hosted a Cloud Security Breakfast Briefing summer of 2019. During this briefing Stephen Alexander, AWS National Security Senior Solutions Architect and FireEye's Martin Holste, Cloud Security CTO, and Tim Appleby, Director of Federal Programs, addressed how organizations can achieve the security needed...
Healthcare organizations face a number of unique security concerns, including the increasingly interconnected systems between doctors' offices, hospitals, insurance companies and suppliers.
Gates Corporation CISO Sam Masiello on how they brought their vision of a global authentication authority to life with advisory, configuration, deployment, and employee training.
A newly discovered mobile ransomware strain called Filecoder.C is targeting Android devices through malicious links in online forums and then spreading via contact lists through SMS messages that attempt to entice others to install an app, according to research by the security firm ESET.
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JPMorgan Chase researchers have published a new paper describing their efforts at developing a novel "early warning" system based on artificial intelligence algorithms that can detect malware, Trojans and other advanced persistent threats before the phishing campaign that targets the bank's employees even starts.
The promise of cloud and mobility is to provide access to key services quickly and from anywhere at any time from any device. Zscaler's Lisa Lorenzin opens up on zero trust network access technologies, which provide a secure alternative to legacy methods.
Three years since its launch, the No More Ransom portal has assisted 200,000 ransomware victims and stopped $108 million from being paid in ransom, according to Europol - one of its founding partners.
A medical center and a children's hospital in Puerto Rico are victims of a recent ransomware attack impacting a total of more than a half million individuals. The combined incident is the largest ransomware breach reported to federal regulators so far in 2019. How is this threat evolving?
Mike Cotton of Digital Defense sees a key shift in the threat landscape, as attackers focus more on attacking key endpoints and infrastructure. As a result, many organizations are developing security blind spots. Cotton explains how to regain visibility.
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