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Ransomware gangs can now afford to pay as much as $10m for zero-day exploits, but for those without the money, developers have discussed renting out malicious code, according to Digital Shadows. The threat intelligence firm’s new report ⁠–⁠ Vulnerability Intelligence, Do You Know Where Your Flaws Are? ⁠–⁠ is based on a detailed analysis of the cybercrime underground. It confirmed that ransomware…

Before you toss out your legacy security solution, here are a few steps you can take to strengthen your digital defenses in-house. “How can we prevent ransomware attacks?” We’ve been hearing this question with new urgency after a string of high-profile ransomware events like the shutdown of Colonial Pipeline made headlines far beyond the security world. It’s…

What makes security practitioners tick? That’s a simple question with a lot of drivers underneath it. The Ask We’re launching a long term study of security practitioners to understand how they approach security, please sign up for our Long Term Security Attitudes and Practices Study here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CZTZY7M. Background A few years ago I was in a customer…

The popular Trojan has re-emerged on the scene several months after the botnet infrastructure behind it was disrupted by law enforcement. The once-pervasive malware tool Emotet has risen from the ashes months after international law enforcement agencies coordinated a takedown of its botnet infrastructure.  Multiple security vendor research teams have spotted the Trojan in the wild,…