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Threat Report 2022: In the wake of ransomware
Threat Report 2022: In the wake of ransomware

SophosLabs identify new trends in ransomware, standard malware, attack tools, cryptominers and more. Ransomware is co-opting other cyber threats to create massive, networked delivery infrastructure for its extortion activities. Advancing deepfake video and speech synthesis technologies are opening up new opportunities for cyber criminals. These are some of the points from the Sophos Threat Report 2022. Today Sophos published its annual IT security threat report. The Sophos 2022 Threat Report collects research and threat data from Sophos Labs, the experts from the Managed Threat Response and Rapid Response departments, and the Sophos AI team, and offers a multidimensional perspective on security threats that companies ...

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DDoS extortion campaign targets VoIP providers
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Since the beginning of September 2021, several Voice-over-IP (VoIP) communication providers have been attacked by a highly effective DDoS extortion campaign. The attacks resulted in failures and disruptions in VoIP operations and services around the world. In early October, the number of DDoS extortion attacks increased worldwide, affecting both wholesale and retail VoIP providers. In these attacks, the attackers tried to put the targeted organizations under massive pressure so that they would make extortion payments in cryptocurrency in return for stopping the attacks. At this point it should be pointed out again that paying ransom is no guarantee that the attacks will stop ...

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Barracuda Email ThreatScanner
Mail threat scanner

Barracuda Email Threat Scanner: New version comes with extended reporting and improved user interface. Free tool detects millions of attacks that are overlooked by many organizations' existing protection. Barracuda has made further improvements to its Barracuda Email Threat Scanner service. The new version of the free security tool received a complete update of the user interface. The service helps identify email threats that have managed to get through the company's gateway. These threats include highly targeted attacks such as spear phishing, compromising business emails, conversation hijacking and services impersonation. Email Threat Scanner Reports Attacks With Each ...

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Cyber ​​insurance in 2021
Cyber ​​insurance

Cyber ​​insurance: The number of cyber attacks rose rapidly during the pandemic - ransomware is a particularly high risk. Private individuals as well as public institutions or hospitals are victims of the extortionate software, which releases previously encrypted, often sensitive information only in return for a ransom. Accordingly, the demand for cyber insurance is increasing, but at the same time the loss rate for insurers is increasing. René Schoenauer, Director Product Marketing EMEA at Guidewire Software, on how the insurance industry can cope with these developments in 2021. More gateways for attacks By moving work to the home office, ...

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0,4 million euros in damage per company
Extortion euro ransomware damage

A study on ransomware published by Sophos has shown that more than half of the medium-sized companies surveyed in Germany had been victims of ransomware in the last twelve months and that these companies suffered an average of more than 400.000 euros in damage due to the failure or restriction of business operations. A comment from Michael Veit, Technology Evangelist at Sophos. A cyber attack is no longer the exception, as it was in previous decades. It is the norm today and affects organizations of all sizes. The almost daily headlines about new ransomware attacks on large companies, hospitals ...

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