Estimated reading time: 5 minutes The pandemic has expedited digital transformation, making technology and data pivotal to most businesses. However, it has also increased cyber threats, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMBs). In addition, data regulations have also become more stringent, with fines growing and regulators targeting all firms regardless of their size. Small businesses are more vulnerable to cyberattacks leading to productivity loss, financial trouble, and reputation harm. Since the attackers don’t differentiate between a large enterprise and a small one, the on ..read more

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes The pandemic has expedited digital transformation, making technology and data pivotal to most businesses. However, it has also increased cyber threats, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMBs). In addition, data regulations have also become more stringent, with fines growing and regulators targeting all firms regardless of their size. Small businesses are more vulnerable to cyberattacks leading to productivity loss, financial trouble, and reputation harm. Since the attackers don’t differentiate between a large enterprise and a small one, the on ..read more

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The world of healthcare is rapidly changing. Technological advancements expose organizations to cyber risks, including ransomware, malware, breaches, viruses, and vulnerabilities. The combination of poor cybersecurity practices, digital transformation in care delivery, operational touchpoints, and sensitive data storage makes the healthcare industry a prime target for cybercriminals. While there is no doubt that healthcare service providers and our government are continuously strengthening the cyberattack prevention mechanisms, Lok Sabha data still reported ov ..read more

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Enterprises are no longer safe from dangerous and expensive ransomware attacks in modern times. It can enter an organization through multiple vectors, such as email spam, phishing attacks, or malicious web downloads. For the highest level of protection, organizations are encouraged to deploy multiple layers of security on the endpoint, gateway, and mail servers. Ransomware attacks are growing more common and sophisticated. Advanced threat protection (ATP) solutions are designed to minimize these attacks’ risks to an organization’s endpoints by preventing attac ..read more

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes If you’ve been following the news recently, you’ll undoubtedly have read about cybersecurity incidents impacting corporations of all sizes in all industries around the world. While it doesn’t often make the news, even small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have been hammered by email phishing attacks or ransomware, which has been getting worse for some time. As per a recent report, almost 25% of the organization become victims who chose to pay the ransom. Hackers seem to be encouraged by their success and are growing more ambitious with time. The most recen ..read more

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes We generally see that ransomware attacks are deployed through exploits, unsolicited malicious emails (malspam), or malicious Microsoft Office documents. Attackers trick the unsuspecting users into enabling macros, etc. Apart from these usual attack techniques, we came across a new way of using Anydesk software fake websites to spread Babuk ransomware. Anydesk is a remote-control tool that allows users to access remote computers and other devices running the host applications. Babuk Ransomware is recently very active. Its tactics for encryption are not much dif ..read more

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes In a recent event, Kaseya – the US-based software provider for MSPs and IT Teams has reported a worldwide Supply Chain Attack on July 2, 2021 taking advantage of US Independence Day as a leverage since the strength of staffs to monitor the attack would be less. The hacker group exploited the zero-day vulnerability in the Kaseya VSA software to deploy the REvil ransomware to clients. The attack leveraged by the REvil gang may have affected about 60 MSPs and their business customers using the supply chain technique. The attackers have demanded a high ransom for ..read more

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Making accurate predictions, especially for cybersecurity needs years of experience — 2020 was a different situation altogether. Amidst many forecasts, no one predicted the onslaught of a global pandemic that would disrupt the world as we know it, baffling experts and pundits. At Seqrite though, many of the predictions we made for 2020 came true. In that spirit, we have carefully curated cybersecurity predictions for 2021 in alignment with emerging business trends for the next year. Our vision of cybersecurity is derived from our robust 25-year-long legacy of ..read more

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a far-reaching impact on the world as we know —it has also led to a huge increase in cyber frauds. Emboldened by the chaos and instability caused by the pandemic, threat actors have stepped up cyberattacks against both businesses and users who have had to adapt to the new normal which the pandemic has ushered in. Interpol, the international organization which coordinates cooperation between the police forces of different countries, pointed out that cybercriminals were taking advantage of lowered cyber defences at a time wh ..read more

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Microsoft recently warned its over 100,000 followers about the emergence of a new human-operated Java-based ransomware that has been involved in targeted attacks in the US, India and Iran. PonyFinal, the name of this malware, is an example of human-operated ransomware which is gaining currency as an instrument to attack individuals. In this type of attack, attackers use credential thefts and lateral movements to acquire more knowledge about an individual. The strategy and payload are chosen based on the target environment. Once the environment is understood an ..read more