This year, NopSec predicts that the biggest cyber threats will be massive data breaches, ransomware, opportunistic crypto-mining attacks and IoT hacking.

From the report, “In the first installment of the 2019 Security Report ‘CyberAttack Trends Analysis’, we reviewed the latest trends and threats facing the IT security industry today. We assessed the major incidents that impacted organizations over the past year along with our commentary and insights regarding them. These trends fell into the categories of Cryptominers, Ransomware, Malware Methodology, Data Breaches, Mobile and Nation State Cyber Attacks. In this installment we zone in on an underlying trend that lies behind all of the above categories, the democratization of cyber crime.” Read on to find out more.

This report offers insight into Cyber Breaches and the health industry for 2016. It provides information on the important trends of 2016, medical device hijacks and the top ten health care cyber attacks of 2016.

This report offers some insight into Health Information Technology and the cybersecurity issues that plague that area.

This report offers insight into Ransomware and explains the growing threat that impacts enterprise security.

The Cylance 2017 Threat Report offers valuable analysis on the current state of cybersecurity. The information provided in the report is unavailable anywhere else. This Cylance® study includes research and information drawn from internal data and feedback provided by Cylance customers. The report offers considerable insights into recent threat trends and related security issues.

This paper provides information on Bad Rabbit a new ransomware roving the internet.

“Despite the massive impact the WannaCry ransomware attack had on businesses across the globe and the immediate changes to security practices following it, a year later businesses still have a reactive approach and struggle to implement comprehensive security policies that target employees and management. With cyber threats evolving so rapidly, businesses need to learn how to be quick on their toes and expedite the development and enforcement of cyber security policies to better prevent future breaches.”

This is a technical guidance document provided by the US Government. It provides an aggregate of already existing Federal government and private industry best practices and mitigation strategies focused on the prevention and response to ransomware incidents.

IBM fielded a US-based consumer and business research study to determine the value people place on data and their awareness and knowledge about ransomware. The results are alarming.

This report discusess malware attacks and data from the year 2016 and makes predictions for 2017.

This guide offers help for surviving ransomware attacks.

This paper takes a look at a smaller Ransomware family that has not received as much press as the other bigger ransomware families.

This paper takes a look at cloud sandboxing and how that can be used to protect governments from Ransomware.

This Quarterly report offers key takeaways from the third Quarter of 2016. Those takeaways come from Email, Exploit Kits, Web-Based Attacks, and Social Media and Domain Research.

This report from Symantec gives a variety of information about ransomware. It gives an overview, discusses the factors driving the growth and persistence of ransomware, infection vectors, platforms affected, the major ransomware families and finally, how businesses are going to be impacted.

This paper details the history and abilities of Ransomware, and where it is headed in the coming years.

This report presents the results of a survey undertaken in the United States, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom on ransomware and related issues. The survey was conducted during June 2016 with 165 organizations in the United States, and 125 each in the other nations for a total of 540 surveys completed.

From the report, “We found the paradox of illicit, malicious activity juxtaposed with helpful customer service so interesting that we decided to evaluate the customer journeys of fi ve current ransomware families. From the fi rst ransom message to communicating with the criminals via their support channels, we wanted to see just how these gangs are doing with their customer journey – and whose is the best (or rather, least loathsome).”

This special report takes a specific look at Ransomware.

This is a well written exclusive look at Ransomware.