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Vice Society: Opportunistic Ransomware Group

The threat group tracked as DEV-0832 by Microsoft’s security threat intelligence analysts, also known as Vice Society, are a group of cyber criminals that are thought to have been active since at least June 2021. They have been credited for ransomware and extortion campaigns across the world but have mainly focused on US-based targets. The […]

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How the No More Ransom project helps victims of ransomware

In 2016, Europol, the Netherlands Police and leading anti-virus companies joined forces to create the No More Ransom project, which to date has helped over 6 million ransomware victims recover their files and avoid paying €1billion in ransom. The nomoreransom.org website provides advice for individuals and businesses on how to protect themselves against ransomware and

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Ransomware claims drop dramatically after mandatory scans

An innovative American insurance company, Corvus, has reported a drop of 65% in ransomware claims after they started insisting on vulnerability scans of the client’s network before providing cyber-insurance. Lauren Winchester of Corvus states in a recent blog post: Our automated scan locates threats like unprotected RDP upon quoting for new business and we notify

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Ransomware trends 2020

After analysing dozens of ransomware incidents over the last 4 years, researchers have identified their defining common characteristics – which can help security managers design targeted defences.   Mandiant Intelligence have published a report that reveals the common attributes of ransomware incidents from around the world and across the industrial spectrum. The key findings are:

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600 failed login attempts per hour for public RDP servers

Recent research from Sophos highlights your public RDP server as the primary attack vector against your data centre. During April and May 2019, Sophos deployed 10 standard out-of-the-box configured Windows 2019 servers into AWS data centres around the world.  By default, Windows 2019 has RDP enabled.  They configured each server with uncrackably long passwords and

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