The influential Ransomware Task Force saw its inaugural report, released 13 months ago, become the backbone of global debates on ransomware. But its new report, titled One Year On acknowledges one of the harsh truths of gauging progress: Data on ransomware remains unreliable, which some in the infosec community say diminishes the urgency required to rally appropriate response.
More than half of the financial firms surveyed by Ponemon/CBI, 55%, say they believe a “full and accurate backup is not sufficient with respect to mitigation when experiencing a ransomware attack.”
A spokesman for the ransomware group most commonly called BlackCat confirmed its lineage as part of the Dark Side/BlackMatter family in an interview with a threat analyst at Recorded Future, and asked that the group be referred to by its advertised name of ALPHV. The connection to Dark Side had been suspected since at least the beginning of the year.
Letter addresses DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg directly for details on how the two agencies plan to protect the nation from another cyberattack like the one last May on Colonial Pipeline.