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Kevin Beaumont
GossiTheDog
The corporate ransomware situation is playing out depressingly exactly as I predicted years ago. You’ve got orgs secretly paying millions, attackers getting much better with huge budgets etc. For most
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Trend Micro Research
TrendMicroRSRCH
— A THREAD — #1: Trend Micro detected and blocked a total of 1,500,507 #ransomware threats in February 2021. Ransomware detections decreased only .77% from January. Follow this thread and
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Tyler Hudak
SecShoggoth
I've worked a lot of #ransomware incidents and I've found that most companies don't realize what the true cost of a ransomware incident is.But isn't it just paying the ransom
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🗣 Rob Rosenberger
vmyths
# of #ransomware deaths because hospitals triage their IT networks over that of a dying patient: 1# of #HeartAttack deaths because hospitals restricted treatment for non-COVID patients:https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/07/10/more-people-ar
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Sean Lyngaas
snlyngaas
Thread ---> With #Ryuk bearing down on the computer networks of U.S. hospitals, security companies and the feds are releasing a lot of data on the ransomware and the criminals
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John Hultquist
JohnHultquist
NEW INTEL: Ransomware attacks on US hospitals, during a pandemic, are probably the most dangerous cyberattacks in the US to date. This problem is out of control and people will
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Morning Brew ☕️
MorningBrew
1/ The group of hackers known as DarkSide who shut down the Colonial Pipeline are way more professional than you might thinka thread about the organization that brought the nation's
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD
DataDrivenMD
/ Just want to draw some attention to the fact that there’s an imminent threat to U.S. hospitals from another type of virus (ransomware, actually)Here’s a short thread on what
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Trend Micro Research
TrendMicroRSRCH
Cybercriminals continue to ramp up their activities even in the midst of a global pandemic. In August, @TrendMicro blocked a total of 5.6B #threats that compromise users’ systems, 5.7M of
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Andrew Thompson
anthomsec
Mandiant has some early history responding to extortion operations against the education system. TDO was pretty nasty, but they couldn’t hold a candle to the persistent threats deploying ransomware today.
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Christopher Glyer
cglyer
This shouldn’t be news to anyone,but human operated ransomware is a problem that has gotten completely out of controlThe reasons are relatively straightforward: The cost to pay is often significantly
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Kevin Beaumont
GossiTheDog
Translation: it’s ransomware.https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1390823126016086020 Time to dig out the Norsk Hydro thread (which is a wild read if you’ve not seen it).https://twitter.com/gossithedog/status/1107928639612555265 “
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Robert M. Lee
RobertMLee
I’m scheduled to join @jimsciutto on @CNN at 10am Eastern to talk about ransomware and intrusions into our industrial infrastructure in context of the Colonial Pipeline incident. Join me if
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Murray Webber
MyNameIsMurray
Today I "deployed" a HP ProBook x360 G7. By deployed, I mean it was set up with Autopilot, using a configuration with no policies or apps. We're talking vanilla device
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Just a doc
ColdHandsMD
Today my hospital was the victim of a "Ryuk" ransomware attack. We cannot use any systems/computers that are based on a Windows platform, the duration of this is expected to
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Osma Ahvenlampi
osma
This isn't your everyday service outage. Garmin has been down for about 12h with hardly any customer comms, and it's leaking out they've been attacked by ransomware. These services have
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