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There’s another sign that ransomware is paying off for cybercriminals: A new group has emerged, according to the Bleeping Computer news site. The gang calls itself Hades, and one of its first victims is a large American freight transportation firm called Forward Air Corporation. The attack occurred on December 15th but the firm only filed a report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.
Meanwhile a group of tech companies including Microsoft, McAfee, Rapid7 and Citrix are banding together to fight ransomware. To be called the Ransomware Task Force, it will officially start next month. Its goal is to assess the effectiveness of existing anti-ransomware solutions and create a road map of concrete objectives and actionable milestones fighting ransomware. It hopes to include representatives of government, law enforcement, nonprofits, cybersecurity insurance, and international organizations.
There is another organization of largely European security vendors and police called No More Ransom. It’s a three-year-old project that hosts a number of decryption tools for IT security professionals to use in case their firm is attacked.
Some good news: Police in Europe and the FBI have taken down three websites that offered protected web hosting and virtual private networking encryption often used by criminals for ransomware and other scams. Among crooks these are called bulletproof hosting services, because they ignore complaints about suspicious activity and don’t care who uses them. After taking down the sites police identified and alerted over 250 companies who were being spied on by criminals using the services.
In another move the European police co-operative called Europol announced the launch of a platform to help police unscramble encrypted information lawfully seized in criminal investigations. Police in 24 countries will be able to use the service. Not included is the United…
Sophos is now leading in the IDC Marketscape, according to an assessment by World Mobile Threat Management Software Vendor. The firm assesses business strategies and product offerings of mobile threat management systems vendors.
As a leading entity, Sophos’ Intercept X for mobile can protect android, Chrome OS, and iOS devices from known and unknown threats. The solution platform is lent support by SophosLabs, which can analyze at least 400,000 daily risks and remain on top of all potential threats like Fleece ware, one of the new mobile device threats that Sophos discovered. This malware charges users more on essential services that they can get elsewhere at a lower cost or free.
The Sophos Intercept X features unified endpoint management, offering easy management of the platform’s cloud that also includes the platform’s complete next-generation cyber system services as well as cutting edge innovative R & D efforts.
Based on the reports, the platform’s UEM and MTM products are hardly used by MTM affiliated vendor but is quite common among vendors who took part in the study. As a result, Sophos has a strong standing in scenarios where an enterprise wants a point of contact for security systems and device management.
Dan Schiappa, the company’s chief product officer, stated that mobile devices make easy targets for several attacks. The risk is even higher not that people have shifted to working remotely where workers use both personal and company tools to access sensitive information.
He added that the company has continued to be relentless in securing users irrespective of the device they use and their location. He went on to say that they are continuously innovating so that they can always be ahead of potential threats.
Source: https://itbrief.co.nz/story/sophos-named-mobile-security-leader-in-idc-marketscape