{"id":44419,"date":"2020-11-30T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=44419"},"modified":"2020-11-30T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T08:10:00","slug":"how-ransomware-defense-is-evolving-with-ransomware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/30\/how-ransomware-defense-is-evolving-with-ransomware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ransomware Defense is Evolving With Ransomware Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ransomware<\/strong> became deadly in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2017\/06\/19\/06\/56\/arrow-2418321__340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"588\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Healthcare facilities were attacked at an alarming rate, including one incident&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/9\/17\/21443851\/death-ransomware-attack-hospital-germany-cybersecurity\">in Germany<\/a>&nbsp;that lead to a patient death when an attack locked critical systems and a woman needing critical care was turned away. She died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ransomware <\/strong>is now one of the fastest-growing threats in cybersecurity, with damages predicted to cost\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\">$20 billion globally by 2021, up from $354 mill<\/a>ion in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you work in infosec, you probably knew that. We&#8217;re not here to tell you ransomware is a problem.  But we are here to examine what security teams are doing to defend against it, and what techniques are emerging as best bets to mitigate <strong>ransomware<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frankly, the current landscape isn&#8217;t great, according to Azeem Aleem of technology services firm NTT Ltd. <strong>Ransomware<\/strong> attacks are more aggressive and diversified than ever before &#8211; and they use multiple attack vectors. There is an entire industry now dedicated to selling <strong>ransomware<\/strong> on the black market (<strong>ransomware<\/strong> as a service), which lowers the barrier for criminals to enter, and means more attackers are getting into this very profitable business.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/theedge\/how-ransomware-defense-is-evolving-with-ransomware-attacks\/b\/d-id\/1339533\" target=\"_blank\">Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware became deadly in 2020. Healthcare facilities were attacked at an alarming rate, including one incident&nbsp;in Germany&nbsp;that lead to a patient death when an attack locked critical systems and a woman needing critical care was turned away. She died after <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/30\/how-ransomware-defense-is-evolving-with-ransomware-attacks\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[636],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-44419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ransomware","tag-ransomware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}