What can we do about the expected increase in ransomware and cyber-extortion tools? By Nicolai Solling, CTO at Help AG. Cyber-extortion involves attackers demanding payments rather than just stealing money via the cyber realm. This therefore requires them to have some leverage which could be sensitive data or disruption of services. The most common types […]

What can we do about the expected increase in ransomware and cyber-extortion tools?  By Morey J. Haber, Chief Technology Officer, BeyondTrust. While these is no shortage of seminars, articles and vendor solutions outlining best practices to mitigate the threats of ransomware and modern cyber extortion threats like malware based crypto-mining, there is no single solution […]

What can we do about the expected increase in ransomware and cyber extortion tools? By Dragan Petkovic, Oracle Security Product Leader, ECEMEA Although most often connected with ransomware, cyber extortion is a much broader concept. In addition to ransomware, cyber extortion often includes distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) and data breaches, which may lead […]

Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, have announced its SophosLabs 2018 Malware Forecast, a report that recaps ransomware and other cybersecurity trends based on data collected from Sophos customer computers worldwide during April 1 to Oct. 3, 2017. One key finding shows that while ransomware predominately attacked Windows systems in the last […]

Intelligent CIO caught up with Gopan Sivasankaran, SecureWorks’ Security Architect at this year’s GITEX Technology Week to discuss the evolving cyberthreats targeting organisations, and individuals, today. Q: What is SecureWorks focusing on this year at GITEX? A: This is the first GITEX as part of the Dell Technology family as such with all organisations within […]