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What It Takes to Start a Career in Cyber Security and the Evolution of Future Cyber Crime
Featuring Mike Lotas, global incident response leader in SOC at Arete, this episode explores what it takes to start a career in cybersecurity, the evolution and future of cyber crime, and a dive into Mike’s history and career path.
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Anatomy of an Incident Response
Listen as we dive in to the many facets of an incident response to give you insight into the characteristics of a typical IR victim, IR planning, importance of strong passwords, the key to successful forensics and more!
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Nation State Threats with Jim Jaeger
In this episode, Kevin Smith and Stephen Ramey talk to Arete's chief cyber strategist, Jim Jaeger, about nation state threats, ways to keep your business safe from ransomware, and more!
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Threat Intelligence with Evgueni Erchov, Part 2
In this episode, Evgueni Erchov continues the discussion on Threat Intelligence; techniques, emerging threats, and our commitment to partner with law enforcement agencies to help gain a better understanding of the diverse threat actor environment.
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Threat Intelligence with Evgueni Erchov Part 1
In this episode, we interview Arete’s Head of Security Research and Strategy Evgueni Erchov about the most critical weapons used in cyber defense, which attackers target organizations, and how to thwart these attacks.
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Conti Ransomware is the New Ryuk?
Based on forensic analysis, Arete’s Threat Intelligence team observed that Conti ransomware could be a rebrand of Ryuk ransomware, as both variants have similar tactics, including leveraging the TrickBot banking trojan to deploy ransomware.
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Remote Working Cyber Risks
Tune in to this week's episode as we sit down with Arete’s Director of Incident Response to delve into the cyber risks associated with remote work.
Read moreUniversal Encryption
Ransomware variants like Ryuk, WastedLocker, and Dopplepaymer are also file level encryption. These groups will gain access to the network and perform reconnaissance to identify the victim, understand their business, identify critical systems, and…
Read moreSystem Specific Encryption
Ransomware variants like Phobos, Dharma or CryLock are file level encryption. The TA gains access to the system, copies specific encryption executables onto the systems then runs the executables to encrypt the files. The results are files with a new…
Read moreRemote Access and IoT Search Engines
Recently, Arete Incident Response Tiger Teams (“Arete IR”) have responded to an increased volume of ransomware incidents involving the Sodinikibi, Phobos, and Dharma ransomware variants. The threat actors deploying these variants are known to use…
Read moreMonero- Overview & Quick Facts
OVERVIEW Recently, the threat group behind Sodinokibi ransomware publicly announced the switch from Bitcoin to accepting only Monero payments. The switch was motivated largely by the fact that Monero is inherently more difficult for law…
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Maze Ransomware: Is Posting Data Counterproductive?
In 2020, Maze Ransomware began utilizing both encryption and data exfiltration in an attempt to maximize ransom payments, but these tactics may backfire by adding additional incident response costs for victims.
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