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    Technical Insight: The 10 Stages of a Highly Sophisticated LuckyDay Ransomware Attack

    BY ELEC MCCLELLAN, SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER LEAD  Sophisticated threat actors may or may not know the difference between a salad knife and a dinner knife, but they’d be happy to hold either to your throat when the time is right — and they sure…

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    Threat Intelligence with Jaycee Roth and Evgueni Erchov

    Interview with Jaycee Roth and Evgueni Erchov, discussing how Arete interlaces threat intelligence with our forensic investigations and incident response services.

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    Dear Ramey: Bad Guys Deleted Our Data. How Do We Get It Back?

    ANSWERING BURNING QUESTIONS FROM VICTIMS OF CYBER EVENTS DEAR RAMEY: My organization was hacked. The bad guy found our data and deleted it — including our backups! All they left was a note stating, “Send a message to this email address to get your…

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    Healthcare Company Takes Proactive Measures to Improve Security Maturity

    A CIO saw a cyber incident as an opportunity to measure and get a baseline of the company's cyber hygiene and devise a plan for hardening infrastructure and reaching a higher level of security maturity.

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    The Hidden Costs of Cybercrime

    By Kevin Baker, Director of Cyber Strategy and Defense   This year, the global cost of cybercrime is expected to hit $6 trillion.[i] Up from $3 trillion in 2015, it’s nothing short of a big, flourishing business whose operators are relentless…

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    Demystifying Cyber Insurance with Marc Schein

    Steve and Marc discuss how cyber insurance can strengthen your business, the Cyber Center of excellence, risk prevention, and cyber resilience.

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    Codecov Bash Uploader Supply Chain Attack

    By Arete Cyber Threat Intelligence Team EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  On April 15, Codecov announced a compromise to its Bash Uploader (a software application used in some of its products), whereby a threat actor was able to send sensitive information from…

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    Fundamentals of Ransomware: What to Do Before and After Ransomware Strikes

    By Raj Sivaraju   Amid the pandemic and as more people began working from home via unsecure networks, India saw a 31 percent rise in ransomware attacks.[i] What’s more, according to the Sophos “State of Ransomware 2020” study, of 300…

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    The State of Cybersecurity with Marc Bleicher

    Steve and Marc discuss the current state of cybersecurity, industry trends, and building a cybersecurity workforce to meet the industry's current demand.

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    Dear Ramey: We Paid the Ransom. Has Our Data Been Deleted? 

    ANSWERING BURNING QUESTIONS FROM VICTIMS OF CYBER EVENTS DEAR RAMEY:  I’m a bit embarrassed to say this, but we were hacked. They stole our data, posted a blog about it, and said they’d only remove the post if we paid a ransom. It was a…

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    DasH into the Future of Cybercrime

    By Jaycee Roth  It is 6:30AM on a Monday morning, you are startled awake by your phone receiving a call. It is Veronica, a long-time employee complaining that she cannot access any of the data on the shared D: drive – a critical drive to the…

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    Q1 2021 Crimeware Report: Post-Mortem Analysis of a Dumpster Fire

    Unique insight into the state of ransomware based on data from more than 1,500 incident response and forensics cases.

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