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2021 Annual Crimeware Report: From Tailwinds to Headwinds
Community and government action helps shift the course of ransomware.
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Cybersecurity in the Age of Ransomware. It’s More Than Simply Having Insurance.
In many ways, cybersecurity insurance is not so different from car or home insurance.
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Fool Us Once … BlackMatter Initial Access Tactics Point to a Possible REvil Association
Arete observed an overlap between a recent BlackMatter case and a Q1 2021 REvil case.
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Q3 2021 Crimeware Report: For Every Action, There Is an Equal and Opposite Reaction
Cybercrime is in a constant state of evolution and revolution, and threat actors are reacting to the actions of their targets as governments and law enforcement agencies seek to protect those targets.
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PYSA: 2020 to Now
BY ARETE CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE TEAM PYSA is the newest variant of the Mespinoza Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) family, which was first observed infecting victims in the wild in December 2019. PYSA is likely a reference to the open-source web…
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Q2 2021 Crimeware Report: Crime and No Punishment
Like legitimate businesspeople, threat actors are always looking for ways to optimize operations and boost profits. With time and impunity on their side, some started to get more creative in Q2 2021.
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Endpoint Detection and Response: The Closest Thing to a Silver Bullet to Stop Ransomware
By Paul Caron In its recent report “Combating Ransomware,” the Ransomware Task Force says there’s no silver bullet to solving the ransomware challenge. Instead, the group touts a multi-pronged approach and provides an extensive list of…
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Avaddon Ransomware Hits AXA
BY ARETE CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE TEAM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY From September 2020 to May 2021, the Arete Incident Response (IR) practice responded to nine Avaddon ransomware engagements across varying industry sectors, including the professional…
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Colonial Pipeline Breached by Darkside Ransomware Group
On Saturday May 8, US Colonial Pipeline announced that they were victim of a ransomware attack that affected their network on Friday May 7. US Colonial Pipeline is said to be the largest fuel pipeline in the United States and the main source of…
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The Hidden Costs of Cybercrime
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 innovators.
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DasH into the Future of Cybercrime
We are seeing a trend where threat actors, who historically would have gained unauthorized access to a firms’ network to propagate ransomware, have shifted to DasH.
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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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