A new year, a new ransomware attack. Portugal’s largest media conglomerate got hit hard over the New Year’s holiday weekend, and is still offline as of this article’
2021 was the year that ransomware went viral, and not in a good way. Although ransomware is far from a new scourge, it became household news this year as extremely high-profile attacks
According to the US Justice Department, more than 4,000 ransomware attacks happen daily, on average, in the US alone. Most of them don’t make the news. Many attacks are quietly paid off
Ransomware attacks in 2021 continued to grow in not only frequency, but in cost, according to a new survey. CrowdStrike’s fourth annual Global Security Attitude Survey revealed that 66
There is no doubt about it: ransomware can be devastating. The average recovery cost is reaching nearly $2 million, more than double the amount from just a year ago, according to cybersecurit
To make a rational risk assessment about any scenario, you need to know what the possible outcomes are, and the consequences of each outcome. The alternative to proactive investment is reacti
Readers of this site (as well as our book, “Ransomware: Understand. Prevent. Recover”) will know that ransomware-as-a-service is becoming a popular way for cybercriminals to make money. N
“Our message to ransomware criminals is clear: If you target victims here, we will target you,” reads the warning from Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco. It’s no idle threat, eit
Oh BlackMatter, we hardly knew ye. The criminal ransomware gang that first appeared in July 2021 has apparently ceased operations as of November 2021. In that short lifespan, however, it stil
