“This report is based exclusively on information collected via a wide range of security services within GravityZone: Security for Virtualized Environments, Security for Endpoints, Security for Mobile and Security for Exchange, consumer-oriented products such as Bitdefender Antivirus, Bitdefender Internet Security or Bitdefender Total Security, as well as from Bitdefender BOX, the innovative solution for protecting devices in the IoT space.”

This paper discusses the How and Why the Dark Web Marketplace for Ransomware Is Growing at a Rate of More Than 2,500% Per Year

This is a helpful infographic that reveals threat predictions for 2018.

This report provides you with unique insights into Europe, Middle East and Africa’s (EMEA’s) threat landscape for the second half of 2015.

This report from the Ahn Lab Security Emergency Response Center provides a review of various Cyber events that took place in the 3rd Qtr. of 2017.

From The Report, “Evaluation of the business threat landscape can be broken down into two major areas: financial and technical. The former we covered extensively in our previous report, by measuring security budgets and recovery costs from typical threats. The next step is to take a closer look at real incidents that businesses have to deal with, and measures they take to prevent them.”

This report details some of cyber threat activity that has been observed against Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. It explores motivations of the cyber threat and factors that could trigger future activity in the region.

This report takes a look at the DDoS threats that occurred in the second quarter of 2017.

This monthly threat report takes a look at the month of June 2017. More specifically, it takes a look at the Trickbot ‘mac1’ Phishing campaign.

As this report states, you can be compliant, but still not be secure. Read the 5 steps that can help make your hospital secure beyond the requirements for compliance.

On behalf of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and as part of the Priority Criminal Justice Needs Initia- tive, the RAND Corporation, in partnership with the Police Executive Research Forum, organized a workshop in May 2017 on Challenges with Law Enforcement Access to Digital Evidence Held in Remote Data Centers. Discussions focused on ambiguities in U.S. law and procedure, challenges associated with using the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) process, issues stemming from inadequate cooperation between law enforcement and service providers (the companies and organizations providing remote storage, communication, and computing services), and technical issues related to evidence residing in the cloud.

In this report, they highlight the statistics gathered by McAfee Labs in Q3 of 2017.

A quick and effecient article discussing why the new ransomware is dangerous.

This Paper is subtitled “Stopping Attacks In Progress Starts With Asking The Right Questions” The paper tries to discuss and reveal the questions that should be asked.

This Quarterly report offers key takeaways from the second Quarter of 2017. Those takeaways come from Email, Exploit Kits, Web-Based Attacks, and Social Media and Domain Research.

To get a more complete sense of the impact of ransomware beyond the headlines and statistics, we surveyed IT professionals who have had to deal with it firsthand.

In the third quarter of 2017, Heavy Reading, in conjunction with A10 Networks, undertook the creation and execution of a global survey designed to assess cloud, premises, and hybrid network security concerns and evaluate CSPs’ strategies to mitigate the risks of a threat curve on an upward trajectory. The key findings from the survey are documented in this white paper.

It would appear that a new variant titled ‘StoneDrill‘ has now hit the wild and conducts operations very similar to that of Shamoon 2.0 and Shamoon malware. Here is a brief analysis of StoneDrill,

This is a quarterly report that looks at the current cubery security threats from each quarter.

This is a solid breakdown of the Ransomware issues as seen in 2017.

From The Report, “With global ransomware damages predicted to exceed $5 billion this year, it is no surprise that ransomware is the fastest growing security threat. As this year’s global attacks have made national news, businesses of all sizes have become increasingly aware of the looming ransomware threat and the challenge of staying protected. Infected companies race the clock to minimize data loss, downtime, and reputation damage. With the seemingly endless profitability, anonymity and ease of execution it doesn’t appear cybercriminals will be turning their back on ransomware anytime soon. Companies are right to expect another year filled with attacks and new variants. The question is how can companies block these attacks before ransom is demanded, and their data along with their reputation is put at risk.”