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Extortion

Below you will find reports with the tag of “Extortion”

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Unit 42 Attack Surface Threat Report

Unit 42 analyzed several petabytes of public internet data collected by Cortex Xpanse — the Palo Alto Networks attack surface management solution — in 2022 and 2023. This report outlines aggregate statistics about how attack surfaces worldwide are changing and drills down into particular risks that are most relevant to the market. Today’s attackers have the ability to scan the entire IPv4 address space for vulnerable targets in minutes.

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Added: July 12, 2024
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2024 Cyber Report

Howden’s fourth annual report on the cyber insurance market. The themes for this year’s edition are risk, resilience and relevance.This report reveals that more than half of premium growth is likely to emanate from non-U.S. territories. In the major European economies of Germany, France, Italy and Spain alone, the premium uplift potential in just replicating penetration levels recorded in more mature markets can be measured in the (high) hundreds of millions of euros.

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Added: July 9, 2024
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Redefining Resilience: Concentrated Cyber Risk in a Global Economy

SecurityScorecard researchers identified not only a pool of 150 top vendors – based on their detectable market share of products and customers – but also a subset of 15 “heavy hitters” with an even higher market share concentration. In today’s interconnected world, concentrated cyber risk threatens national security and global economies. Much like a precarious house perched on a cliff’s edge, the reliance on a handful of vendors shapes the foundation of our global economy.

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Added: July 2, 2024
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Ransomware Trends Report 2024

The results of the surveys affect our product strategy and go-to-market methods, and hopefully help organizations engage in deeper conversations with colleagues and teams as they continually consider modernizations to their data protection and cyber-resiliency strategies. This year’s report surveyed 1,200 respondents — comprised of CISOs (or executives with similar responsibility), security professionals, and backup administrators — whose organizations suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2023 to assess different perspectives in the united fight against ransomware.

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Added: June 28, 2024
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Cyber Insurance and Cyber Defenses 2024: Lessons from IT and Cybersecurity Leaders

The report is based on the findings of an independent, vendor-agnostic survey commissioned by Sophos of 5,000 IT/cybersecurity leaders across 14 countries in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. The research reveals that investing in cyber defenses to optimize your insurance position is a double win: organizations report both easier and cheaper access to coverage as well as wider benefits such as improved protection, fewer alerts, and freeing up IT time. This finding further emphasizes the importance of considering cyber risk investments holistically, rather than as individual components.

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Added: June 28, 2024
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The State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production 2024

The fifth Sophos annual study of the real-world ransomware experiences of manufacturing and production organizations around the globe explores the full victim journey, from root cause to severity of attack, financial impact, and recovery time. Fresh new insights combined with learnings from our previous studies reveal the realities facing businesses today and how the impact of ransomware has evolved over the last five years.

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Added: June 19, 2024
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Sophos 2024 Threat Report

Based on that data and Sophos threat research, we see that ransomware continues to have the greatest impact on smaller organizations. But other threats also pose an existential threat to small businesses. Data theft is the focus of most malware targeting small and medium businesses—password stealers, keyboard loggers, and other spyware made up nearly half of malware detections. Email attacks have begun to move away from simple social engineering toward more active engagement with targets over email, using a thread of emails and responses to make their lures more convincing.

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Added: June 14, 2024
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State of Ransomware Preparedness 2024

We chose to analyze four recent ransomware attacks. These ransomware attacks resulted in significant business disruption and financial impact, and in some cases, continue to result in collateral damage. While details are often sparse on how the attacks happened, the nature of the attack can be examined to determine the degree to which basic ransomware controls impact organizational outcomes. Many ransomware attacks are not technically sophisticated, but instead take advantage of controllable gaps and lapses that organizations do not actively seek to identify and remediate.

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Added: June 14, 2024
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2024 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index

This Index provides a comprehensive view of what organizations need to be ready to tackle the security challenges of the modern world, and more importantly where companies across the globe are lacking. It provides a detailed point of reference and serves as a guide on what organizations need to do to improve their cybersecurity resilience.

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Added: June 12, 2024
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LevelBlue Futures Report 2024

With the advent and spread of powerful new technologies, businesses are under more pressure than ever to secure their organizations from the start of new computing developments. This report closely examines what executives are doing to protect their organizations and reveals what worries them about the tradeoffs between fostering innovation and lowering risk.

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Added: June 12, 2024
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GreyNoise 2022 Mass Exploitation Report

That is the purpose of this report is to show you the hours saved, the data aggregated, and the research methodologies laid bare. you’ll find several sections covering some of the bigger mass exploitations of 2022, also known as celebrity vulnerabilities.

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Added: June 5, 2024
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GreyNoise 2023 Internet Exploitation Retrospective Report

This report presents multiple segments detailing various key aspects of major mass exploitations of 2023. We encourage you to view the year through the perspective of a defender, say on a security operations (SOC) team, with limitless access to GreyNoise data. From this vantage point, see how 2023 might have appeared if you had utilized our datasets* to remain at the forefront of thwarting widespread internet exploits.

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Added: June 5, 2024
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Hacker-Powered Security Report: Industry Insights '21

HackerOne’s Hacker-Powered Security Report: Industry Insights leverages data from real-world vulnerability reports to provide insight into the fastest-growing vulnerability categories, how bounty prices are changing year over year, and which industries are fastest to fix. The most innovative CISOs stay ahead of cybersecurity threats and mitigate vulnerabilities by augmenting internal teams and security testing tools with a skilled and engaged hacking community.

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Added: May 22, 2024
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2024 State of the Phish Report

This report will help users to understand the nature, scope and impact of the threats they face, and will help security teams tailor their program and messaging accordingly. A security awareness program should be an essential component of any organization’s security strategy, but by itself it isn’t enough. Our data shows that 96% of people who took a risky action knew that what they were doing might be risky, so it seems that key information is getting through. However, knowing what to do and doing it are two different things. The challenge is now not just awareness, but behavior change.

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Added: May 21, 2024
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The State of Cybersecurity: 2024 Trends Report

The Arctic Wolf State of Cybersecurity: 2024 Trends Report took the temperature of organizations around the globe and sought to understand how they were responding to these areas of challenge. Our research revealed that ransomware continues to be a perennial area of concern. For the third year in a row, ransomware ranked as the top concern for respondents. This concern is not without merit when we consider that 45% of the organizations we spoke with admitted to being the victim of a ransomware attack within the last 12 months, a 3% increase over last year.

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Added: May 21, 2024
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The 2024 InsurSec Report

By publishing this report, we aim to show the greater business community what has led us to this point and what can be done to reduce the risk that has resulted from this complexity. In 2023, ransomware frequency increased by 64% overall when compared to 2022, mostly driven by a 415% increase in indirect ransomware.

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Added: May 18, 2024
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Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 VPN Risk Report

Based on a survey of 647 IT professionals and cybersecurity experts, this report explores the multifaceted security and user experience challenges of VPNs to reveal the complexity of today’s access management, vulnerabilities to various cyberattacks, and their potential to impair organizations’ broader security posture. The report also outlines more advanced security models, particularly zero trust, which has firmly established itself as a robust and future-proof framework to secure and accelerate digital transformation.

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Added: May 15, 2024
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Kaspersky Incident Response Analyst Report 2024

This analyst report contains information about cyberattacks investigated by Kaspersky in 2023. Kaspersky provides a wide range of services — incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, etc. — to help organizations affected by information security incidents. The data used in this report is derived from working with organizations that have sought assistance with responding to incidents or conducted professional events for their internal incident response teams.

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Added: May 15, 2024
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The 471 Intel Cyber Threat Report 2024

This report serves as a beacon of insight, offering a comprehensive analysis of the emerging trends, evolving techniques, varied motivations and techniques employed by threat actors from January 2023 to March 2024. Curated by our globally diverse intelligence team, this report is a testament to Intel 471’s collective commitment to understand your adversaries, expose their tactics and empower you to win the fight against them.

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Added: May 14, 2024
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Global Threat Landscape Report 2H 2023

In the second half of 2023, the cybersecurity landscape saw a range of significant developments that have considerably impacted the digital attack surface. Notable among these was the rise in sophisticated cyberattacks targeting large-scale entities and essential infrastructure. The findings in this report represent the collective intelligence of FortiGuard Labs, drawn from a vast array of network sensors collecting threat events each day observed in live production environments around the world from more than 600K+ environments and 10M+ sensors capturing every detail about threats that hit our detection technology.

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Added: May 14, 2024
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Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024

Our Ensign Threat Classification Matrix for identified threat groups helps organizations to prioritize their cyber defense against the territory-contextualised threats. We provide the MITRE ATT&CK heat-maps to support organizations in prioritizing their cyber defenses against specific adversary techniques and follow-through defensive actions, such as threat hunting, Red Teaming, and tuning of detection rules. We have also laid out the observed top targeted industry groups and top exploited vulnerabilities.

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Added: May 10, 2024
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