To identify malicious packages and protect yourself against them, you need to know what to look for. Here’s a simple guide. In January 2022, users of the popular open-source libraries “faker” and “colors” suddenly found their applications started to malfunction and display nonsensical data because they had been infected by a malicious package.
Here at Rubrik, we are rapidly progressing towards our initial FedRAMP® moderate authorization, and we are very excited to be listed as “In Process” on the FedRAMP Marketplace. This is an important milestone in delivering Rubrik’s data security platform to the U.S. federal government organizations.
Ransomware attacks are as pervasive as ever, with new data demonstrating just how impactful the attacks really are. If you’re one of the lucky few organizations that hasn’t fallen victim to a ransomware attack, consider yourself lucky. According to the 2023 Ransomware Trends Report from backup vendor Veeam, the vast majority of organizations (85%) have experienced a ransomware attack. And while that number is pretty shocking, that’s not the worst of it.
The purpose of the Netskope Threat Labs News Roundup series is to provide enterprise security teams an actionable brief on the top cybersecurity news from around the world. The brief includes summaries and links to the top news items spanning cloud-enabled threats, malware, and ransomware.
My analysis of this year’s newly-released Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report begins with ransomware findings that point back to users as a big problem. If you only read one report each year to give you an idea of what’s going on with cyber attacks, it’s Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Each year, analysts sort through tens of thousands of data breach incidents (some successful, some not) and identify the attack patterns.
On the surface, ransomware – malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid – appears to be off to yet another ruthless start in 2023 as one of the leading types of malware. Recent victims of public attacks in North America include industries such as health care, communication, education, and even government offices and municipalities.
Cybercrime continues to rise — the 2022 Internet Crime Report produced by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) revealed that the number of complaints it receives annually has more than doubled since 2018. The potential loss from cybercrime has also grown significantly – between 2021 and 2022, it rose from $6.9bn to $10.2bn.
