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Ransomware campaigns, breach analysis and threat actor intelligence.

Ransomware Blog 2023 Firecompass

Achieve 26% Ransomware Risk Reduction By Fixing These CVEs

As per Threat Intel data published by IBM Xforce, 80% of the times, Ransomeware gets initial access using top 3 Attack Vectors – exploiting vulnerabilities contribute 26%, Shadow IT & Stolen Credentials contribute 16%, various variants of phishing attacks contribute 41%, and the rest by other attack vectors. It means that Shadow IT Discovery, identifying… Read More »Achieve 26% Ransomware Risk Reduction By Fixing These CVEs

Paypal Credential Stuffing Blog Post Firecompass

Lessons from PayPal’s Credential Stuffing Attack That Affected 35K Users

Last month, PayPal was hit by a credential stuffing attack, a type of cyber-attack where hackers use lists of stolen login credentials, typically obtained from data breaches or other sources, to gain access to user accounts on various platforms.  The attack occurred between December 6 and December 8, and the company was able to detect… Read More »Lessons from PayPal’s Credential Stuffing Attack That Affected 35K Users

Breach Trends and Ransomware Statistics – July – Oct 2021

In this FireCompass Quarterly Breach Report, we will look into recent Data Breaches, Ransomware attacks and also highlight the trends observed from the data breaches and attacks that happened in the first half of 2021. This Breach report covers publicly disclosed data compromise events reported between July’21 till Oct’ 21. In the first half of… Read More »Breach Trends and Ransomware Statistics – July – Oct 2021

How to Prepare Against Increasing Ransomware Attacks on RDP

Ransomware Attacks are increasing globally. The attacks are more targeted and hackers are using modern and sophisticated techniques to achieve their goals. Organizations must have a clear view to their attack surface and an in-depth understanding of adversary behaviour, regularly validate  susceptibility of organisations systems against attacks, while testing  efficacy of the defensive controls. One… Read More »How to Prepare Against Increasing Ransomware Attacks on RDP

Breach Trends and Ransomware Statistics: June – July 21

Ransomware attacks globally have gone up by 102% in 2021 compared to last year.In 2021 alone, cybercrime has been predicted to cause damages worth over $6 Trillion. Most common tactics Ransomware attackers are using are phishing campaigns, RDP vulnerabilities. We will track the Ransomware attacks each month to share via blog. To keep informed about… Read More »Breach Trends and Ransomware Statistics: June – July 21

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