Ransomware Costs Healthcare Firm $67 Million

Restoring its IT infrastructure as quickly as possible required a significant labor expense, both internal and external.

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Friday Five 1/29

Linux bugs, hacker personas, and the Emotet botnet disrupted - catch up on all of the week's infosec news with the Friday Five!

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Friday Five 1/8

Anti-secrecy activists, insider threats, and exhaustive asset inventories - catch up on all of the week's infosec news with the Friday Five!

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50 Threat Intelligence Tools for Valuable Threat Insights

Threat analysis tools with updated intelligence feeds have become an essential part of defenders' toolkits. In this blog, we look at 50 threat intelligence tools that can help teams better protect their business.

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DoppelPaymer Ransomware Gang Threatening Victims

In a recent FBI note the agency outlined how DoppelPaymer ransomware attacks have impacted critical infrastructure - and the lengths the attackers have gone to get paid.

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Ransomware Payments, Threats to Exfiltrate Data Are Up

Not only is the average ransom payment going up, so are cases in which the attackers threaten to release a company's stolen data.

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Ransomware Reportedly Behind Nationwide UHS Hospital Outage

The full scope of the incident isn't yet known but as a result, facilities across the U.S. have been left without access to computer systems.

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Ransomware Crew Ravages Liquor, Wine Company

The parent company of some of the biggest names in liquor, including Jack Daniel's, was hit by ransomware, allowing attackers to steal 1 TB of data.

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What is Threat Intelligence?

Threat intelligence is what becomes of data after it has been gathered, processed, and analyzed. Organizations can use threat intelligence against cyber threats. In this article, we’ll discuss what threat intelligence is, its types, how it works, and why it’s important.

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FBI Urges Vigiliance Around COVID-19 Scams, Malware

It’s been difficult keeping track of all the scams leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic to steal your money or your personal information. Now, the FBI is warning of increased attacks that target the supply chain and the healthcare industry in addition to “Zoom-bombing” style attacks.

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