There has been a lot of media attention concerning the recent Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities that cybercriminals are exploiting to execute their malicious ransomware attacks. As a
The FBI released a FLASH alert in April 2022 concerning BlackCat Ransomware. Between November 2021 and March 2022, the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) variant encrypted the networks of at leas
The U.S. Justice Department has notched up a small but potentially significant victory against ransomware after announcing the recovery of a $500,000 cryptocurrency payment extorted from tw
This blog post started as a Twitter thread, in case you were wondering if anything good ever came from Twitter. Ransomware attacks are complex and involve a lot of different aspects of securi
Don’t open attachments from strangers: it’s been standard anti-phishing advice long enough to become a cliché. So of course, purveyors of malware do their best to imitate someone you kno
Ransomware’s evolution away from encryption continues, according to this article from The Register. To be clear, ransoms are still being demanded and paid. But instead of being forced to pa
As anyone who works in cybersecurity will already know, North Korea has made a big investment in its cyberattack capability, with ransomware a feared specialty. For that reason, a warning las
Over the past 18 months, there have been a lot of headlines involving ransomware and other types of cyberattacks involving Microsoft Exchange Server environments. Last March, a single cyber e
When discussing the ever-changing ransomware threat landscape, we often talk about what devices threat actors will target next. In addition to mobile devices, the other technology I get asked
