Ransomware and Cybersecurity Blog
The State of Ransomware in 2020
Ransomware cyberattacks are a big business, so big in fact, that research anticipates a business is attacked by a cybercriminal every 11 seconds and damage costs from these attacks will hit around $20 billion by [...]
Insider Threats: Mitigating the Risks of Data Exfiltration
In addition to the dramatic rise in ransomware during 2020, many organizations face an even more imminent danger, the insider threat. Leading analyst firm Forrester expects insiders to be responsible for a third of breaches in 2021, up 8% from 2020, mostly due to the increase in remote working.
Mitigating Ransomware and Cyber Risk in the Hybrid Workforce
If 2020 has taught IT security leaders anything, it’s that remote workers are more vulnerable to cyberattacks and ransomware, and the tools that they thought would protect them outside the walls of the corporate environment simply didn’t in many cases.
All Cyberattacks Lead to Data Exfiltration
The threat of data loss, data breaches and ransomware is on the minds of everyone. We discuss the crucial part that data exfiltration plays in defending an organization from these modern threats.
Ransomware Reputation is Everything
Ransomware attacks have significantly more consequences than the cost of remediation, assessment and regulatory reporting.
Homograph Attacks using Homoglyphs
Homographs are the latest in a long line of new attack vectors now being used by cybercriminals to trick users into disclosing personal information such as passwords or other sensitive data.
TikTok Privacy Risk Prevention
BlackFog has introduced TikTok privacy prevention for all users of BlackFog Privacy. This new feature available in BlackFog 4.5 and above dynamically detects data exfiltration events from TikTok to remote servers to maintain user privacy.
Data Breach Prevention – A New Approach
We have seen major data breaches from many large organizations including Cognizant and GoDaddy and perhaps surprisingly, some repeat offenders such as Marriott who recently announced they suffered another breach affecting 5.2 million guests.
The VPN Privacy Fallacy and Remote Work
VPN Privacy is not what people think it is. Companies have relied on the VPN to connect to the corporate network particularly for remote work. However it does not afford users the level of privacy protection they think it does.