Ransomware News

Data exfiltration and the threat of exposure are now a central aspect of nearly every ransomware operator’s playbook and can have severe regulatory and legal implications...

While robust cybersecurity measures are essential, effective cyber resilience goes beyond prevention to include swift detection, response, and recovery from cyber incidents...

While we cannot prevent ransomware attacks, we can prevent them from being successful. As an executive, it is crucial to understand the impact of disruptive ransomware attacks on your business...

Halcyon publishes a quarterly RaaS and data extortion group reference guide, Power Rankings: Ransomware Malicious Quartile. Here's the ransomware gangs on the move last week...

"The exposure of sensitive data can lead to regulatory fines, legal liabilities, and severe damage to the company's brand and customer trust..."

"Paying a ransom demand does nothing to evict the attackers from the victim’s environment, so the likelihood that they will be extorted again is high..."

“We need to get some minimum cybersecurity standards into healthcare. We've been talking about this for some time without a lot of action..."

Class action lawsuits spurred by ransomware attacks that include data exfiltration have skyrocketed and liability is hitting the C-suite and Boards of Directors...

Merely having a plan is not enough, it must be communicated effectively to all stakeholders and they must understand their role in an incident response scenario...

Halcyon publishes a quarterly RaaS and data extortion group reference guide, Power Rankings: Ransomware Malicious Quartile. Here's the ransomware gangs on the move last week...

Threat actor RansomHub is claiming to be in possession of exfiltrated Change Healthcare data and is attempting to further extort the company...

While ransomware operations are financially motivated, the attacks may also serve a dual purpose by furthering Russian geopolitical objectives...

Halcyon publishes a quarterly RaaS and data extortion group reference guide, Power Rankings: Ransomware Malicious Quartile. Here's the ransomware gangs on the move last week...

We will see more punitive class action lawsuits, regulatory actions, and potentially prosecutions following successful ransomware attacks...

Data backups are still highly recommended for disaster recovery, but organizations cannot depend on them as the primary means of recovering from a successful ransomware attack...

Anyone who knows anything about cybersecurity understands that a determined attacker with enough time and resources will eventually be successful in penetrating a target...

We will likely soon see some victims of ransomware attacks prosecuted – especially if sensitive or regulated data was compromised or exfiltrated in the attack...

Executive Order 13224: Terrorism involves an act dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population...

According to the recently published CISO stress report, nearly half of CISOs surveyed (48%) said work-related stress negatively impacted their mental health...

Halcyon publishes a quarterly RaaS and data extortion group reference guide, Power Rankings: Ransomware Malicious Quartile. Here's the ransomware gangs on the move last week...

Several studies have found a direct link between ransomware attacks and increased complications following medical procedure and patient mortality rates...

While the fallout from a betrayal of trust is hard to predict, it has no doubt created a lot of animosity between affiliates and RaaS providers...

Halcyon publishes a quarterly RaaS and data extortion group reference guide, Power Rankings: Ransomware Malicious Quartile. Here's the ransomware gangs on the move last week...

There is no threat as pervasive as what we see with the explosion in ransomware operators, variants, affiliate threat actors, and total dollar losses to victim organizations...

Within days of a PoC exploit being published – and just one month after a patch was released - ransomware operators were already leveraging automated scans to identify vulnerable targets...

Organizations already struggling to defend themselves against ransomware and data extortion attacks now face the threat of being re-victimized by an overzealous legal and regulatory landscape...

Ultimately, it's rogue governments that are both providing safe harbor threat actors conducting ransomware attacks and influencing some of their targeting...

Halcyon publishes a quarterly RaaS and data extortion group reference guide, Power Rankings: Ransomware Malicious Quartile. Here's the ransomware gangs on the move last week...

Ransomware operations create revenue for attackers, but the targeting of critical infrastructure like healthcare also further geopolitical interests of adversarial nations like Russia...

Guidelines and frameworks are nice, but they are still do-it-yourself approaches to what is clearly a national security issue, yet governments do little more than public relations...