Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
The Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team recently released its Ransomware 2026 report that contains helpful intelligence into the state of ransomware attacks and insight into how they are evolving, despite law enforcement’s success in taking down some of the largest ransomware gangs in 2025.
The very first statement is a sobering reality: “Ransomware…
Google sent out a warning that the cybercriminal group Scattered Spider is targeting U.S.-based retailers. Scattered Spider is believed to have been responsible for the recent attack on Marks & Spencer in the U.K. A security researcher at Google has posited that Scattered Spider concentrates attacks on one industry at a time and predicts that…
Dragos issued its Industrial Ransomware Analysis for Q2 on August 14, 2024. The analysis shows that ransomware attacks significantly increased in Q2, with many ransomware groups disrupted by law enforcement rebranding themselves into new groups. For instance, BlackCat became inactive in March 2024 after being targeted by law enforcement in late 2023 but “recalibrated their…
