Articles and Comments By Chad Anderson
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Experts On Delaware County Pays $500,000 Ransom To DoppelPaymer Gang
December 01 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
Ransomware authors have increasingly gone after the double extortion attacks for the simple reason t...
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Comment: Cybereason Researchers Find New North Korean Malware Suite
November 03 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
Cybereason\'s findings are concerning but not surprising: wherever there is valuable information, th...
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Comment: Wisconsin Republican Party Hacked For $2.3 Million
October 30 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
This looks like an incident of BEC fraud which has cost the Wisconsin Republican party millions. BEC...
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Enel Group Hit Again By Ransomware And Netwalker Demands $14 Million
October 29 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
This attack is yet another confirmation that defenders need to be right all the time, whereas cyberc...
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Expert Advice To Protect Universities In This New Year Against Latest Iranian Hackers
October 15 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
This resurgence in phishing emails around the start of term further shows how well cybercriminals st...
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Tyler Technologies Paid Ransomware Gang For Decryption Key
October 13 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
Paying the ransom should always be organisations\' last resort. It is unfortunate that Tyler Technol...
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Experts Reacted On Corporate Credentials On The Dark Web Up By 429% This Year
October 07 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
All but encouraging, the figures reported by Arctic Wolf’s Security Operations Annual Report confi...
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Experts On UK's HMRC 'Bombarded' By 5,000 Malicious Email Attacks Every Day
October 05 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
The UK\'s HMRC has always been one of cybercriminals\' favourite organisations to impersonate. After...
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Experts Insight On US Court of Louisiana Hit by “Conti” Ransomware
September 14 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
This ransomware attack confirms a trend we have seen emerge recently, which is ransomware doubling u...
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Experts Comment On Survey That 94% Of IT Professionals Have Experienced A Data Breach And Worry About Insider Threats More Than External Attacks
September 10 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
The reason for constant defender negativity lies in the maxim that every blue teamer is aware of: we...
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What Expert Says On Hackers exploited Tor exit relays to generate bitcoin
August 13 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
One major flaw of Tor is that any dedicated actor with enough resources can spin up enough nodes to...
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Experts On Google said it took down ten influence operation campaigns in Q2 2020
August 06 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
Google’s TAG bulletin is a welcome initiative, and the work of the Threat Analysis Group is likely...
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Expert On WhatsApp Launches Factcheck Feature Aimed At Viral Messages
August 05 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
This is an extremely encouraging development for a company mired by accusations that they have facil...
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Experts On Spyware targeting senior clergymen in Togo among activists
August 04 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
The fact that this security gap was allowed to exist in such a prominent messaging platform is defin...
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Industry Experts On Verizon DBiR 2020
May 19 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
This report further goes to show that attackers do not have to be sophisticated to be effective. We...
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Response Comments On Ransomware Costs Double If You Pay Up
May 13 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
I would like to say that companies should never pay, but we are seeing some situations where it is n...
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Experts Reaction On Millions Of Websites Face 'Insecure' Warnings
March 04 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
Let’s Encrypt is a free certificate service that came along to offer encryption for domains that a...
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Experts Insight On Decathlon Suffers Major Breach Impacting Over 120 Million Customers
February 26 , 2020 by Chad Anderson
For years Elastic — the maintainers of the open-source Elasticsearch — charged for basic custome...
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