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Black Hat 2022 Opens Today With Focus on Emerging Threats

Data Breach Today

Ransomware, New Tactics and Geopolitical Threats Among the Key Conference Topics Black Hat 2022 kicks off today with security experts sharing cutting-edge research and insights through demos, technical trainings and hands-on labs.

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Security Training: Moving on from Nick Burns Through Better Communication

eSecurity Planet

A recent experience highlighted that security awareness training and most alerts to users about unsafe practices may be making the error of being too general. SocGholish establishes an initial foothold onto victim networks that threat actors use for further targeting with additional malware or even ransomware.

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Ransomware Now Considered a “Crisis” in the Financial Services Sector

KnowBe4

A recent panel discussion of banking CISOs and experts at the SIBOS conference focused on the current state of ransomware and what institutions should do to protect themselves.

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How One Company Survived a Ransomware Attack Without Paying the Ransom

eSecurity Planet

The first signs of the ransomware attack at data storage vendor Spectra Logic were reports from a number of IT staffers about little things going wrong at the beginning of the day. Screens then started to display a ransom demand, which said files had been encrypted by the NetWalker ransomware virus. The ransom demand was $3.6

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Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling

The Security Ledger

With the attention given to the threats posed by ransomware, why do organizations still fall victim to these attacks? Max Henderson, the Manager of Incident Response at Pondurance joins us to talk about what companies get wrong in responding to ransomware and other threats. So what should companies worried about ransomware do?

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Newcastle University becomes latest ransomware victim as education sector fails to heed warnings

IT Governance

The DoppelPaymer ransomware gang breached the university’s systems on 4 September , and later that day stole backup files. Staff and students can still access limited services, including email, office applications and video conference tools. Ransomware epidemic.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 484 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Is the INC ransomware gang behind the attack on McLaren hospitals? Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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