A new Glasswall survey shows that while many security leaders depend on staff to keep the company safe, they are very worried about how those same employees may actually pose a threat to the firm. 40% of senior security professionals fully rely on staff as the last line of defense

Once again a local US government has suffered a cyberattack involving the notorious Ryuk ransomware. The City of Stuart, Florida was hit on April 13 when Ryuk infected its computers and servers, probably after a city employee fell for a phishing email. While Stuart has managed to restore various services

Marcus Hutchins, a British security researcher who helped to stop the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware attack by triggering the malware’s kill switch, has pleaded guilty to entering a conspiracy to create and distribute malware, and to aiding and abetting the distribution of malware. A further eight charges have been dropped

A new Coveware report based on data from the first quarter of 2019 highlights six interesting ransomware trends: Threat actors are demanding higher ransoms – the average ransom amount asked in incidents handled by Coveware was %12,762, a 89% increase over the last quarter of 2018, when the amount was $6,733.

Anyone looking for proof that ransomware is a threat to any and every organization needs to look no further than the latest news regarding US cybersecurity firm Verint, because the company’s Israeli offices where the target of a ransomware attack earlier this week. That’s right, threat actors actually went after

Once again, a local government in the US has suffered a ransomware attack. Last Tuesday, Michigan’s Genesee County was hit, forcing the county to shut down their computer systems. Since officials were also no longer able to user their email, the county could only be reached by phone. While the

Once again, a local US government has been at the receiving end of a ransomware attack. The City of Albany, the State of New York’s capital, was targeted on March 30. While little is known about the exact impact of the attack on the City’s systems or the type of

A new report by CyberEdge Group singles out advanced security analytics as the most most popular new security technology for this year, with 47% security professionals planning to invest in this technology in the coming year. The report found that 78% of organizations were at the receiving end of a

Researchers with Zscaler warn that threat actors are increasingly trying to take advantage of flaws in the immensely popular content management systems (CMSs) WordPress and Joomla in order to get legitimate websites to target users with malicious payloads. In the past month, the researchers detected thousands of attacks, hundreds of

Can you trust NSA tools? This and more as OODA Network Expert Michael Tanji provides insightful analysis of the most recent and significant cyber news.