ransomware

August 10, 2021

SECURITY

Healthcare organizations are a focus of ransomware attacks

2 min read

Cisco Secure protects against ransomware with an integrated platform approach across a breadth of critical control points backed by best-in-class threat intelligence and research from Talos.

August 4, 2021

CLOUD

Security in the Age of Cloud

6 min read

In this blog, the second in a series of five, we’ll take a look at how companies in the cloud need to think about security differently. We’ll talk about what that looks like, the challenges involved and how Cisco can help.

July 22, 2021

SECURITY

Beef up your ransomware defense with Cisco Secure Choice

3 min read

Don't let a complex buying process stand between you and your security deployment when you need to protect against the next ransomware attack.

July 20, 2021

NETWORKING

Trust Analytics and Anti-Spoofing Protection: It’s Already in Your Network

5 min read

Trust Analytics protects your organization from ransomware with AI/ML-based anti-spoofing technology by lowering a device's Trust Score when it exhibits unusual behavior typical of a rogue device attacking the network.

July 14, 2021

SECURITY

Top Tips for Ransomware Defense

6 min read

Ransomware is popping up everywhere, including the nightly news. Most people know what it is, but how does it work? What makes it so destructive? And how can we stop it?

July 8, 2021

SECURITY

It was a LONG weekend — Here’s the vital info on REvil and Kaseya VSA

8 min read

We speak to Cisco Talos’ US Outreach Team lead Nick Biasini about the unfolding events of the REvil ransomware campaign and Kaseya VSA supply chain attack.

May 26, 2021

PARTNER

Adding Data Security in the Age of Ransomware Attacks

3 min read

News of ransomware attacks has become all too common in this modern age of cyberattacks. Some say it’s not a question of if you’ll be hit by a ransomware attack, but when.

January 19, 2021

SECURITY

Out today: Defending against critical threats: A 12 month roundup

2 min read

Today we launch our brand new publication, Defending Against Critical Threats, in which we take a retrospective look at cyber threats, and how they have evolved in the last 12 months. We’ve designed this in a magazine style format to include both interviews with security experts, and research driven features to help inform strategic decision-making, as organizations prepare for threats they may encounter in the future. 

November 17, 2020

THREAT RESEARCH

Nibiru ransomware variant decryptor

1 min read

Nikhil Hegde developed this tool. Weak encryption The Nibiru ransomware is a .NET-based malware family. It traverses directories in the local disks, encrypts files with Rijndael-256 and gives them a .Nibiru extension. Rijndael-256 is a secure encryption algorithm. However, Nibiru uses a hard-coded string “Nibiru” to compute the 32-byte key and 16-byte IV values. The […]