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  • "Sinclair Confirms Ransomware Attack That Disrupted TV Stations"

    Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns hundreds of local television stations across the U.S., confirmed Monday that it had suffered a ransomware attack. The incident is disrupting its advertising operations, among other things, and spread to many of its…

  • "Damages Escalate Rapidly in Multi-Party Data Breaches"

    New research from the Cyentia Institute explored the top 50 multi-party breaches, finding that the average large-sized breach involved 31 organizations and cost an average of $90 million, compared to the average loss of $200,000 due to a typical…

  • "83% of Ransomware Victims Pay the Demand"

    Security researchers at ThycoticCentrify have found that more than four in five (83%) ransomware victims in the last 12 months felt they had no option but to pay the extortion demand to restore their data.  The study, which was based on a survey of…

  • "Confidential Computing: A Game-Changing Way To Protect Data in Use"

    Advancements continue to be made in the encryption of data at rest and data in motion. However, it is also important to encrypt data while it is being analyzed in computer memory. Confidential computing is an emerging industry initiative aimed at…

  • "BEC Attacks: Scammers' Latest Tricks"

    A survey by GreatHorn revealed that 71 percent of organizations experienced at least one Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack within the past year. New research from Trend Micro has suggested that scammers are increasing their efforts in the…

  • "BlackByte Ransomware Decryptor Released"

    The Windows-based ransomware, dubbed BlackByte, discovered by researchers at the cybersecurity firm Trustwave, seems to have been inspired by other strains known to bring in significant financial rewards for their operators. BlackByte is described as odd…

  • "Cyberattack Response Takes More than Two Working Days"

    Researchers at Deep Instinct have found that organizations worldwide take on average more than two business days to respond to cyberattacks.  The finding was published in the company's second bi-annual Voice of SecOps Report, which was based on a…

  • "Mitigating Cloud Risks Starts With Full Visibility of Shadow IT"

    Netskope and GovLoop conducted a survey to which 230 public sector agency managers and employees responded and provided insight into their understanding of cloud security risks. About 42 percent of the respondents cited good awareness of cloud security…

  • "Researchers Disclose New Side-Channel Attacks Affecting All AMD CPUs"

    Researchers from the Graz University of Technology and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security have disclosed new timing and power-based side-channel attacks, which affect all CPUs made by AMD. The researchers were among those who discovered…

  • "US Treasury Tracks $5.2bn of Ransomware Transactions in Six Months"

    The US Treasury has tracked $5.2bn worth of Bitcoin transactions likely to have been ransomware payments in the first half of 2021.  Its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) bureau hinted in a new report that even this amount might only be…

  • "Olympus Investigates Potential Cyber-Attack"

    Olympus has launched an investigation after detecting a potential cybersecurity incident in part of its IT system. The Japanese manufacturer of optics and reprography products said that suspicious activity was spotted on October 10. The possible threat…

  • "US Government Warns of Insider and Ransomware Threat to Water Plants"

    The FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Security Agency (NSA) have issued an alert warning of ongoing malicious cyber-activity targeting the country’s water and…