South African Companies Paying a High Price for Ransomware
South Africa the remediation average cost (after ransomware) for a company was ~R6.4 million. This is an increase of ~R11 million from 2020 to 2021.
Getting Help to Keep Ransomware From Destroying Your World
Ransomware is continually evolving, now a lot of actions that companies can take to assist in protecting their world from being destroyed
LOG4j: What is it? How will you be affected? What is Being Done?
Log4j is an example of a company trying to do something as a fix that spiraled into a major problem. When the Apache Software Foundation released Lg4j 2.15.0 as a way to correct a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228, aka Log4Shell) it launched into an area that they never expected.
Stop paying ransoms to hackers says the FBI
WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) – On Wednesday, FBI Director Chris Wray urged public corporations and other hacking victims to avoid paying a ransom, citing worry that doing so would incite cybercriminals to increase their activities in the future. “In general, we would advise against paying the ransom because it encourages more of these attacks and, […]
Ransomware Attack on Pipeline Alerts Companies to Dangers
Cyber criminals using ransomware have been around for a long time however in the last 5 years or so they have changed their methods of attack from private citizens to larger, more lucrative victims. In the last few years, hackers have focused on the bigger medical institutions and in May 2021 they sent their malware […]
