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Sophos Uncovers New Connections Between Hive, Royal, And Black Basta Ransomware

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Sophos has released new findings into the connections between the most prominent ransomware groups this past year, including Royal, in its report, “Clustering Attacker Behavior Reveals Hidden Patterns.” Over the course of three months beginning in January 2023, Sophos X-Ops investigated four different ransomware attacks, one involving Hive, two by Royal, and one by Black Basta, and noticed distinct similarities between the attacks. Despite Royal being a notoriously closed off group that doesn’t openly solicit affiliates from underground forums, granular […]
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Chester Wisniewski
Cyber Security

Education Sector Reports The Highest Rate Of Ransomware Attacks

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Sophos has released a new sectoral survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Education 2023,” which found that education reported the highest rate of ransomware attacks in 2022. Over the past year, 79% of higher educational organizations surveyed reported being hit by ransomware, while 80% of lower educational organizations surveyed were targeted—an increase from 64% and 56% in 2021, respectively. Additionally, the sector reported one of the highest rates of ransom payment with more than half (56%) of higher educational […]
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Raja Patel, senior vice president of products and managed services at Sophos
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Sophos Launches Managed Detection and Response For Microsoft Defender

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Sophos has launched Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for Microsoft Defender, a fully-managed offering that provides the industry’s most robust threat response capabilities for organizations using Microsoft Security. Sophos MDR for Microsoft Defender adds a critical layer of 24/7 protection across the Microsoft Security suite of endpoint, SIEM, identity, cloud, and other solutions to safeguard against data breaches, ransomware and other active adversary cyberattacks. “Baseline security technology alone is not enough to defeat determined attackers who will find a way in, […]
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John Shier, field CTO, commercial, Sophos
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68% Of Manufacturing Firms Hit By Ransomware Had Their Data Encrypted

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Sophos has announced a new sectoral survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production 2023,” which found that in more than two-thirds (68%) of ransomware attacks against this sector, the adversaries successfully encrypted data. This is the highest reported encryption rate for the sector over the past three years and is in line with a broader cross-sector trend of attackers more frequently succeeding in encrypting data. However, in contrast to other sectors, the percentage of manufacturing organizations that […]
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John Shier, field CTO, commercial, Sophos
Cyber Security

93% Of Organisations Find The Execution Of Essential Security Operation Tasks Challenging: Sophos

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Sophos has published a new survey report, “The State of Cybersecurity 2023: The Business Impact of Adversaries on Defenders,” which found that, globally, 93% of organisations find the execution of some essential security operation tasks, such as threat hunting, challenging. These challenges also include understanding how an attack happened, with 75% of respondents stating they have challenges identifying the root cause of an incident. This can make proper remediation difficult, leaving organisations vulnerable to repetitive and/or multiple attacks, by the […]
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Sophos Demonstrates How to Make ChatGPT a Cybersecurity Co-Pilot

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Sophos has released new research on how the cybersecurity industry can leverage GPT-3, the language model behind the now well-known ChatGPT framework, as a co-pilot to help defeat attackers. The latest report, “Applying AI Language Processing to Cyber Defenses,” details projects developed by Sophos X-Ops using GPT-3’s large language models to simplify the search for malicious activity in datasets from security software, more accurately filter spam, and speed up analysis of “living off the land” binary (LOLBin) attacks. “Since OpenAI […]
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Sophos reveals new findings on CryptoRom scams

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Sophos has released new findings on CryptoRom scams—elaborate financial fraud schemes that prey on and trick dating app users into making fake cryptocurrency investments—in its latest report, “Fraudulent Trading Apps Sneak into Apple and Google App Stores.” The report details the first fake CryptoRom apps —Ace Pro and MBM_BitScan— to successfully bypass Apple’s strict security protocols. Previously, cybercriminals used workaround techniques to convince victims to download illegitimate iPhone apps that were not sanctioned by the Apple App Store. Sophos
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Joe Levy, chief technology officer, Sophos
Cyber Security

Sophos adds MDR service to third party security technologies

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  Sophos has added integration with third-party security solutions to its managed detection and response service. Sophos has launched new third-party security technology compatibilities with Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) to better detect and remediate attacks with speed and precision across diverse customer and operating environments. The industry-leading service with more than 12,000 customers now integrates telemetry from third-party endpoint, firewall, cloud, identity, email, and other security technologies as part of the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem. “The complexity of […]
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Chester Wisniewski
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Retail Sector The Second Most Target For Ransomware : Sophos

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Sophos has published a new sectoral survey report, The State of Ransomware in Retail 2022, which found that retail had the second highest rate of ransomware attacks last year of all sectors surveyed after the media, leisure, and entertainment industry. Globally, 77% of retail organisations surveyed were hit—a 75% increase from 2020. This is also 11% more than the cross-sector average attack rate of 66%. “Retailers continue to suffer one of the highest rates of ransomware attacks of any industry. […]
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Muneeb Anjum, CEO at AHAD
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AHAD gearing up to conduct a virtual workshop on advanced cyber defence

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AHAD is gearing up to conduct a virtual workshop on advanced cyber defence titled ‘Bigger, Meaner, Smarter Cyber-attacks’. Scheduled to take place on March 24th, the workshop will highlight how ensuring enterprise-wide visibility can improve an organisation’s security posture, as well as the tools, solutions, and practices that can help them lower their security risk and threat exposure.
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