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Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 27 April 2020

COVID-19 cybersecurity update In the face of the continuing coronavirus pandemic, individual cybercriminals and groups have re-geared their operations to use coronavirus lures. Recent research revealed a 148 per cent month-on-month increase in ransomware attacks from February to March, alongside a spike in attacks on financial institutions. Over a dozen state-sponsored threat groups have been …

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When physical infection mirrors cyber infection

Blog, News / By Ian Thornton-Trump, CD

There are significant parallels between the responses of governments and national healthcare organisations to coronavirus – and the resulting infection, Covid-19 – and the way in which businesses respond to ransomware attacks. Unfortunately, the woeful state of global pandemic management and preparedness mirrors the posture of most companies to a ransomware infection or data breach …

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Ransomware operators now publicly leaking victim data

Blog / By Tristan de Souza

In the last week, the gangs behind two of 2020’s most prominent ransomware – Sodinokibi and DoppelPaymer – have revealed domains on which they plan to leak data stolen from victims who don’t pay up. This is part of a worrying trend amongst ransomware operators, many of whom now exfiltrate significant amounts of data from …

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