By SentinelOne Updated: March 30, 2025 Ransomware is rapidly turning into one of the most challenging threats a business can face in the modern digital environment, significantly affecting various industries. Ransomware is a type of malware that targets a victim’s files by encrypting them so they cannot be accessed unless the cyber criminal is given...Read More
BLUE ASH, Ohio (WKRC) – Dr. Gururau Sudarshan, known as Doctor G to his patients, was headed into work one morning last August when workers at his Cincinnati Pain Physicians clinic said they couldn’t get into the computer system. “We contacted my IT person, who was able to look through his server from remote. In...Read More
CISA, the FBI, the NSA, and international cybersecurity agencies are calling on organizations and DNS providers to mitigate the “Fast Flux” cybercrime evasion technique used by state-sponsored threat actors and ransomware gangs. Although the technique isn’t new, its effectiveness has been documented and proven repeatedly in actual cyberattacks. How Fast Flux helps with evasion Fast Flux is a...Read More
Oregon DEQ won’t say if ransomware group took employee data in cyberattack Published 11:49 am Monday, April 28, 2025 By Gosia Wozniacka, The Oregonian This June 2017 photo shows the headquarters of Oregon’s Driver and Motor Vehicles Division in Salem. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on Friday declined to confirm or deny reports that...Read More
As artificial intelligence tools proliferate within organizations, security risks are surging, complicating the already challenging landscape of cyber defense. Businesses eager to harness AI’s promise are finding themselves unprepared to manage threats ranging from data leakage to sophisticated phishing attacks, according to a new report from the cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies. Check Point...Read More
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) have discovered post-compromise exploitation of a zero-day elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) against a small number of targets. The targets include organizations in the information technology (IT) and real estate sectors of the United States, the financial...Read More
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on Wednesday said it had received nearly 860,000 complaints in the last year and recorded a “staggering” $16.6 billion in losses to businesses and individuals, the highest for both figures since the hub’s establishment in 2000. Fraud represented the bulk of reported losses in 2024 while ransomware was...Read More
COLUMBUS, Ohio — State officials have announced a new initiative meant to strengthen schools’ cybersecurity, the implementation of a platform known as TechGuard, according to a press release. What You Need To Know Schools in Ohio will now have access to TechGuard, a platform that offers cybersecurity training Schools are vulnerable targets for cybercriminals State...Read More
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that continues to be lucrative for attackers, with the average ransomware payment reaching nearly $480,000 in the third quarter of 2024, according to cyber extortion incident response vendor Coveware. Whether caused by phishing or other social engineering attacks, software vulnerabilities or privileged access attacks, ransomware encrypts files, exfiltrates...Read More
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Ransomware attacks surged 69% in the global education sector for the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year. Some 81 ransomware incidents — both confirmed and unconfirmed — hit education internationally...Read More
