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INTRODUCTION
The FBI also reports that the tactics and strategies of these
criminal gangs continue to evolve. In a recent Cybersecurity
Advisory, they note the “professionalization” of ransomware
with the use of a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model. This
allows the criminals to rent, not buy, off-the-shelf malware in
which the cyber criminals automatically share a percentage of
their Bitcoin revenue with the RaaS provider. The attackers
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Their research tells a tale of hackers who after all the effort to
break in and find data find the rewards to be far less than
expected. This is especially the case when the stolen credit
card numbers are associated with national banks known to
have better security and therefore would be less valuable to
the criminals who buy them on the exchange. It’s a picture of
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For GBLA, there has been a recent change made by one of the
key regulatory agencies involved in rule making for this law
that has similar implications as the aforementioned NYDFS
law. In late 2021, the Federal Reserve, along with Federal
Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC), finalized a rule
requiring financial companies under its authority— banking
institutions — to notify regulators when there’s been a
“computer security incident”.
accessed
operations - such as
ransomware - are
superintendent.
breach if protected
health information
(PHI) is accessed.
Compliance by May 1,
2022.
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RANSOMWARE:
TO PAY OR NOT TO PAY?
Ideally, you restore the file system from the backups and then
careful remove any permanent malware tasks that restart the
ransomware’s file encryption process. Unfortunately, it’s not
always that easy.
Healthcare is at the top of the list for those organization reporting ransomware to the FBI.
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SECURITY OPERATIONS:
FINDING THREATS IN NEAR-REAL TIME
With a UBA profile in hand, the DSP can then decide whether
a sudden flurry of permission updates or file queries and that
correlates with the same user making an unusual number of
AD lookups is normal — which might be the case say for a sys
admin conducting system maintenances — or unusual and
possibly the indication of a ransomware attack if the activities
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