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Kaspersky ThreatPost- Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records August 31, 2022
- Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger August 30, 2022
- Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms August 29, 2022
- Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise August 26, 2022
- Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras August 25, 2022
- Twitter Whistleblower Complaint: The TL;DR Version August 24, 2022
- Firewall Bug Under Active Attack Triggers CISA Warning August 23, 2022
- Fake Reservation Links Prey on Weary Travelers August 22, 2022
- iPhone Users Urged to Update to Patch 2 Zero-Days August 19, 2022
- Google Patches Chrome’s Fifth Zero-Day of the Year August 18, 2022
Category Archives: Wedge News
Critical Infrastructure: Another Key Target for Ransomware Attacks
We’ve written about this in the past, especially after malware such as Stuxnet spread like wildfire a few years back in Critical Infrastructure organizations. We also elaborated on the amount of damage that could be caused if control systems were compromised at … Continue reading
Healthcare Industry Still Under Siege: Why They’re So Bad at Cybersecurity and Why Backups are No Longer a Solution Against Ransomware
Over the weekend there were a couple of articles that popped out at me, mainly because it’s in an industry that we’ve been making strides to protect with our WedgeARP platform and our WedgeAMB product. This industry is of course, … Continue reading
Haven’t Received Your Packages as of Late? Blame Ransomware!
An interesting article came across my desk yesterday, posted by Zdnet, which centred around how deliveries across Australia have been delayed recently. Now many would figure that it was weather related or something similar as we have seen the news articles of … Continue reading
The Endpoint Protection Numbers Are In And It’s Not Looking Pretty – Endpoint Attacks Are Still An Ongoing Issue
Help Net Security published an article at the end of January that highlighted several Ponemon Institute findings and the fact that “Organizations are not making progress in reducing their endpoint security risk, especially against new and unknown threats…” According to a Ponemon … Continue reading
Snake Ransomware Now Causing Havoc on Industrial Control Systems – Are Your Systems at Risk?
This is a follow-up blog to the one we provided earlier this month on how the Snake Ransomware was affecting Corporate Networks. Yesterday, Bloomberg again brought to light the recent “Snake” ransomware and how it is now used to target Industrial Control … Continue reading
The Snake Ransomware is Making its Rounds Through Corporate Networks… However, it is Unable to Elude WedgeAMB!
Snake is in the news as of late. No, not the one of the 2019 Chinese Zodiac but of the malware variation. Detected as “Trojan.Win32.Antavmu.asdd”, Snake works like most ransomware. It doesn’t touch your operating system files and programs so … Continue reading
Cyber Insurance Company Warning of 6X Increase in Ransomware Attacks: Not Just Healthcare is a Target
Wedge’s CFO recently forwarded me an article from the finance side of things that is painting an alarming picture. We’ve been talking a lot about how the Healthcare industry has been the main target of ransomware attacks but an article … Continue reading
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The Global Ransomware Epidemic is Evolving and Getting Worse… First, US Cities, Now Major Cities in Canada. Are Europe or Asia Next?
As we’ve been writing about for much of this past year, hackers have hit dozens of municipalities in the U.S. so far; demanding ransom from various municipal departments, schools and even police departments – how brazen is that?!? A recent … Continue reading
The Numbers Are In… Were YOU One of the Victims? How Are YOU Protecting Yourself?
Our CFO Rob Fong placed this article by CPO Magazine on my desk and in it, the latest cyber attack numbers are in. From the article, according to a new report from the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA), their Cyber Incident & Breach … Continue reading
The Ransomware Scourge Continues. “To Pay or Not to Pay” is not the answer. GET YOURSELF PREPARED is!
The number of ransomware victims continues to mount with CNN reporting that attacks on cities continue to rise. Law enforcement officials continue to warn against paying ransoms. Security experts continue to suggest that even if victims pay their ransom, there is … Continue reading
