Every cyber geek know this fact that 2020 has been the most promising year for bad actors. The number of cyberattacks have increased drastically this year if we compare from any other year in the last decade or century. In cybersecurity industry, we all see the largest DDOS attacks ranging upto 809 million packets per second recorded by Akamai. Also there are lots of other cyberattacks which took place, some due to vulnerabilities in systems, and some due to social engineering. There are lots of data dumps, breaches and security bypass in this outbreak. The cost of data breaches is one of the most significant factors why most organizations, corporates…
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SMAUG RaaS IS HERE TO HELP CYBER CRIMINALS
In this pandemic, the startups have excessively grown across the world due to millions of people losing their jobs across the world. Individuals having small amount of investment with them have put it all in their new startups thinking that they can make something big. There are no doubts that future of a startup is totally dependent upon the type of idea. Every idea is not big but sometimes resources provided to that idea make it a super hit. Tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Alibaba support many startups financially but their investment to startups totally depend upon what idea does an individual have? How much knowledge does he/she have about…
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ONE RANSOMWARE, TWO FAMILIES
Every organization, corporate or company invest a large amount of their revenue in protecting network infrastructure from cyber attacks. Though cyber criminals sometimes have strategical target, they can unconditionally attack any organization . For the organizations which got attacked, it becomes very difficult to recover data and revenue which it lost while recovering from attacks. The most damaging tool for cyber criminal is to infect the victim’s computer with a ransomware. The simple reason behind this is the hard encryption which is almost impossible to decrypt. But some security experts with much experience and exceptional knowledge are able to do so. These ransomware operators generally encrypt the victim’s file using…
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TELLYOUTHEPASS RANSOMWARE OPERATORS ARE TAKING THE LEGACY OF WANNACRY RANSOMWARE FORWARD
The most dreadful events of all times in the history of ransomware attacks that actually make youths aware of the fact what actually ransomware is and what amount of damage it cause is the WannaCry ransomware. This attack took place around three years ago and targetted systems which are using windows as their OS. Although, earlier we saw a large number of attacks taking place, but this attack is one of those that is being even remembered by other ransomware operators to launch their campaign. One important fact about this vulnerability is that this attack use Eternal Blue vulnerability to exploit the organization’s intranet and spread the ransomware in every…
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CONTI RANSOMWARE, MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU THINK
The word that frighten us the most in this cyber world is Ransomware! All big enterprises try to protect themselves from this but bad actors are always a step ahead which give end results as data breach to the organization. There are lots of Ransomware groups which run affiliates in the underground. Some names for popular group out there are the Sodinokibi aka Revil, Avadddon, Maze, Thanos and more. These all ransomware operators are run by the professional experts behind them but due to their deeds they are being regarded as unethical or bad actors. So discussing about the groups, researchers from Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) (a unit…
