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In their 81-page report, "A Comprehensive Framework for Action: Key Recommendations from the Ransomware Task Force," experts share proposed guidance to deter ransomware attacks, disrupt its business model, help organizations prepare, and better respond to the global threat. While other threats, such as business email compromise, also cause tremendous losses for businesses each year, RTF is focusing on ransomware because of its massive impact. "One of the concerns we have is the scope and scale of ransomware," says Megan Stifel, executive director for the Americas at the Global Cyber Alliance ...

IT software firm Ivanti, which acquired Pulse Secure late last year, today confirmed attackers have targeted a "limited number of customers" using Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) appliances. It has been working with Mandiant, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and others to respond to the exploits, which target three known vulnerabilities and a zero-day. The three known flaws include CVE-2020-8243, CVE-2020-8260, and CVE-2019-11510, which CISA recently warned is among several CVEs under attack by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in its efforts to targ...

News of ransomware activity first emerged on March 12, only 10 days after Microsoft released the patches, and it arrived as researchers noticed an uptick in ransomware attacks following the disclosure of the Exchange Server zero-days. In the week ending March 30, the number of attacks involving the Exchange Server flaws had tripled to more than 50,000 around the world.  Check Point Research reports the industries most targeted in these attacks include government and military, manufacturing, and banking and finance. The most affected country is the United States, which makes up 49% of all exp...

Global Dwell Time Drops as Ransomware Attacks Accelerate The length of time attackers remain undiscovered in a target network has fallen to 24 days, researchers report, but ransomware plays a role. Attackers are spending less time inside target networks, researchers report, but the seemingly positive trend hides a concerning development: Ransomware attacks, which by nature have a shorter "dwell time," are growing more common and efficient, shrinking the average time frame for all attacks. In their 2021 M-Trends threat report, Mandiant researchers note the global median dwell time, or the numb...

As part of the operation, which authorized the activity for email servers in the United States, the FBI copied and removed "one early hacking group's remaining web shells" from affected targets. The Web shells could have been used to maintain and increase unauthorized access to networks if left on the compromised machine, say officials, who call the operation "successful." News of the operation arrives roughly six weeks after Microsoft disclosed critical Exchange Server flaws that have since been used to target thousands of networks around the world. An attacker could leverage the vulnerabili...