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Mar

Why Are Ransomware Attacks Becoming More Dangerous? The British Library Attack Gives Us Some Clues

The 1980s brutalism of the British Library in London has been likened to an unwelcoming fortress, and yet the intimidating appearance was no help when ransomware attackers decided to pay it a visit last October. In what is turning out to be one of the worst incidents ever to hit…

Jan

Zero-Day

Nearly one-third of ransomware victims are hit multiple times, even after paying hackers

More than three-in-ten ransomware victims are being hit multiple times, thanks to ineffective defenses and security fragmentation. According to Barracuda Networks’ Ransomware Insights Report, 57% of organizations fell victim to a successful ransomware attack in the last 12 months, with 31% of victims affected more than once. A ransom was paid in 32% of…

Dec

Phishing

Ransomware attacks are rising — but quiet payouts could mean there’s more than actually reported

Ransomware attacks continue to climb, but they may be even higher than official figures show as companies choose to quietly pay to make such incidents go away. According to the annual report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), ransomware was the biggest threat to critical infrastructure last year,…

Oct

Cybersecurity

Ransomware borrows industry tools to target corporate EDR

Ransomware’s history is littered with threat actors that rise and fall but every now and then a new name appears that grabs people’s attention for the wrong reasons. RansomHub, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform which seems to have successfully recruited affiliates from the downed BlackCat and Lockbit groups during 2024, is…

Sep

Ransomware

Library of Congress Thwarted Ransomware Attack Thanks to MFA Security

On October 28, 2023, the British Library in London was hit by a devastating ransomware attack that ended up causing months of disruption to the venerable institution’s services. We’ve covered this story before, both the incident itself and the unusually frank post-incident lessons learned report published by the Library in March. We later…

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