Only 45 percent of respondents to a recent survey believe it is currently possible to prevent all malware threats from infiltrating their organization s network.
The threat of ransomware through Active Directory [Q&A]
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Ransomware up 62 percent since 2019
Cybercriminals are using more sophisticated ransomware tactics and more dangerous variants, like Ryuk, to earn an easy payday. This has seen a 62 percent increase globally and a 158 percent spike in North America since 2019.
The latest Cyber Threat Report from SonicWall highlights how COVID-19 has provided threat actors with opportunities for more powerful, aggressive and numerous attacks, thriving on the fear and uncertainty of remote and mobile work forces navigating corporate networks from home. 2020 offered a perfect storm for cybercriminals and a critical tipping point for the cyber arms race, says SonicWall s president and CEO Bill Conner. The pandemic along with remote work, a charged political climate, record prices of cryptocurrency, and threat actors weaponizing cloud storage and tools drove the effectiveness and volume of cyberattacks to new highs. This latest threat intelligence offers a look at how cybercriminals shifted and
How to avoid getting caught in ransomware s crosshairs
Paying off a bad actor for successfully implementing ransomware into an organization is the enterprise equivalent of rewarding a bad child who vandalized a home with candy but unfortunately, many organizations often have no choice but to pay… and pay a lot.
Technology has enabled asymmetric attacks. In other words, one attacker can federate an attack across many organizations. The attacker needs to get the attack right once while the defenders (corporations, governments, hospitals, etc.) need to get their defense right every… single… time!
That asymmetry has been amplified through COVID before, an organization could rely on their laptop defenses and network defenses. With such a large swath of the world working from home and only protected by their endpoint technology the scales have tipped even more in the attacker’s favor.