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Departments need to go away and rethink how to protect country from ransomware
"An immense crisis demanding immediate attention" says the American Medical Association
"ICBC’s inability to access its systems caused securities to be delivered for settlement with no funds backing the trades"
Did NCA, FBI deploy an exploit for PHP vulnerability CVE-2023-3824 to break the prolific group's systems?
The attack has been claimed by the prolific LockBit group, which has hit numerous high-profile companies in recent months, often using unpatched Citrix Bleed vulnerabilities.
"Over 102.4 million records were breached via ransomware attacks on tech companies in 2023–a staggering 2,300 percent increase on 2022’s figure of 4.26 million. It’s also the highest number recorded across any industry since we began tracking confirmed ransomware attacks in 2018..."
"Simulate and exercise breach readiness, especially abilities to reduce blast radius of a cyber attack. Involve top leadership, the board, and customers in separate cyber war games, as often as practical..."
The US department of justice has busted up a prolific ransomware as a service ring that targeted hundreds of companies