Ransomware

There are three phases to a cyber incident: (1) Events that led up to the incident, (2) the incident itself & (3) what happens after the incident. KuppingerCole explains best practices for each phase.

It was Lazarus all along behind the critical infrastructure cyber attacks in 2018, McAfee said in a follow up to its Operation Sharpshooter research.

Marriott International suffers $28 million in financial losses & secures $25 million in insurance proceeds related to last year's Starwood Hotels data breach.

KnowBe4 funded at $800 million valuation to drive cybersecurity awareness training & simulated phishing software. KKR & Ten Eleven Ventures involved.

Dow Jones contractor misconfigures Amazon Web Services (AWS) & exposes mission critical source data on the public cloud.

How & why Chinese-sponsored hacker APT10 attacked Visma, a large Norwegian MSP, and two other companies. Analysis from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group & cloud security provider Rapid7.

Wendy’s settles cybersecurity breach class action lawsuit for $50 million. Plaintiffs allege fast food chain’s sub-par security allowed hackers to steal customers’ credit card credentials.

Malta’s Bank of Valletta (BOV), hit by cyber robbers in a €13 million (US$14.7 million) theft late last week, may never recover the full amount stolen, a bank official said.