Ransomware
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Kumar: Ransomware Attacks Both Primary Data and Backups
“Obviously a typical ransomware, you know, is going to essentially go and, you know, attack your primary, but they also will attack your backup. If there is a backup, because that is your resort to go and recover, right? So then, you know, that became an import…”
Costica: Ransomware groups reliably return data to protect their business reputation
“If you think about ransomware, it's a business. It has rules to it, right? You know, when you pay the ransom, you get the data, right? It's a rule. You don't, you're not tricked into it because it's a business and they need to maintain their reputation.”
Arora: Cyber extortion and digital theft exceed $10 billion annually
“If you think about it, there is something to the tune of north of ten billion dollars that is either extorted or ransomware or taken from individuals in some sort of Ponzi schemes, which is based on digital sort of hacking.”
Cross: Ransomware is shifting from encryption to data extortion
“Ransomware now is not going so much after encrypting everything. It's more of a great grab the data, breach, pull it out, and then hold it for extortion, right?”
Arora: $2B paid in ransomware payments over past 12 months
“There's about two billion dollars that's been paid in the last 12 months on ransomware.”
Holland: Ransomware is the easiest malware to detect and stop
“Ransomware in general, I don't get how it even exists. It is the easiest malware to detect and stop. How there's even an industry around that blows my mind.”
Holland: Network monitoring solutions cannot stop ransomware
“A network monitoring solution will not stop ransomware. There's nothing you can do about that. Yeah, you have to be on host, and you have to have a measure of sophistication and tradecraft to identify and block it.”
Holland: Ransomware attacks are inevitable, making prevention far cheaper than response
“Much easier and cheaper to be preventative and to harden your system and be ready for attacks. I mean, that is the reality of today, and anybody who thinks otherwise is, you know, they've got their head in their sand. You're going to get ransomwared. Bad thing…”
de la Garza: Ransomware Will Evolve to Target Cloud Infrastructure Data
“On the ransomware space, I think the, one of the interesting things that I've noticed over the last couple of years, we've yet to see a variant of ransomware that modifies your data in the cloud, right? So cloud-aware ransomware it's something that we've heard…”
De La Garza: A Chinese cybercrime group specifically targets hospitals with ransomware
“There's a Chinese group right now that's focused on ransomware for hospitals, because hospitals pay up, right?”