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Ransomware Protection Market Size to 2023-2030 By Key Players-Mcafee, Llc, Ao Kaspersky Lab, Bitdefender – The Knox Student

August 29, 2023/in Internet Security

Several important driving forces are responsible for the Ransomware Protection Market expansion. First and foremost, the sector has undergone a revolution thanks to quick technology breakthroughs, which have made it possible to create new goods and services. Demand has also increased as a result of changing consumer preferences and rising consumer awareness of Ransomware Protection . Additionally, supportive policies and favorable government laws have encouraged industry growth and investment. Access to new Markets and clientele has also been made easier through smart alliances and partnerships within the sector. These elements are working together to drive the Ransomware Protection Market to new heights, and the outlook is positive for continued expansion over the next few years.

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In the coming years, the global Ransomware Protection Market is set to experience steady growth, driven by a combination of continuous technological advancements, growing environmental awareness, and the rising need for streamlined operations. To seize the evolving market opportunities, industry players are anticipated to concentrate on product innovation, strategic collaborations, and geographical expansion.

The research study includes profiles of leading companies operating in the Ransomware Protection Market :

Mcafee
Llc
Ao Kaspersky Lab
Bitdefender
Fireeye
Inc
Malwarebytes
Sentinelone
Sophos Ltd
Symantec Corporation
Trend Micro Incorporated
Zscaler
Inc

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Ransomware, use of AI, and rise in cybercrime-as-a-service key threats in the first half of 2023: Report

August 23, 2023/in Internet Security

Ransomware attacks, the use of AI, and the rise in cybercrime-as-a-service were observed to be the key trends in the cybersecurity space in the first half of 2023.
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Ransomware attacks, the use of AI, and the rise in cybercrime-as-a-service were observed to be the key trends in the cybersecurity space in the first half of 2023.

While LockBit ransomware was the most used, accounting for 30.3% of observed ransomware cases, cybercriminals were also found making use of new variants, including Akira and Luna Moth.

Ransomwares like LockBit were also updated to target newer operating systems including Linux, and macOS. The updated ransomwares, spotted in the wild, increased the scope of an attack, a report from Arete, a cybersecurity company said.

Q2 2023 also witnessed the emergence of Akira, a new ransomware group, which is expected to be updated by threat actors to counter a flaw in the ransomware that allowed it to be decrypted by a freely available decryptor.

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The first half of 2023 also witnessed increasing attacks on the professional services sector, witnessing an increase of 12% compared to the second half of 2022.

Interestingly, despite an increase in the number of ransomware attacks, ransom was paid in only 19% of the cases in the first half of 2023.

While Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model has dominated the cybercrime industry over the past few years, Cybercrime-as-a-Service grew parallel to it in H1 2023. Cybercrime-as-a-Service has lowered barrier of entry into cybercrime giving theat actors access to various resources allowing them to work their way through the attack lifecycle effectively, the report said.

AI continues to be misused

While AI tools have filters intended to prevent them from being used for harmful content, threat actors have discovered workarounds and methods to bypass these filters and leverage AI to launch cyberattacks.

Threat actors were also found to be using AI tools like ChatGPT to identify vulnerabilities, reverse-engineer shellcode, and even generate code for malware. Cybercriminals were also found discussing the use of ChatGPT in…

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Chrome Supports Key Pinning on Android to Improve Security

August 12, 2023/in Mobile Security

Key pinning, a technique used to prevent an attacker from tricking a vulnerable certificate authority (CA) into issuing an apparently valid certificate for a server, is now used in Chrome for Android, version 106. This helps preventing man-in-the-middle attacks against Google services.

As Chrome security engineers David Adrian, Joe DeBlasio, and Carlos Joan Rafael Ibarra Lopez explain, key pinning was devised at Google as a response to real attacks seen in the wild, specifically an attack that targeted Google services in 2011.

Key pinning was born as an extension to the HTTP protocol, later deprecated, that enabled sending an HTTP header that tells user agents to “pin” cryptographic identities over a period of time.

During that time, user agents (UAs) will require that the host presents a certificate chain including at least one Subject Public Key Info structure whose fingerprint matches one of the pinned fingerprints for that host.

This effectively reduces the number of CAs that can authenticate the domain while the identity is pinned. While effective, key pinning has its own drawbacks. For example, if pins get out of date, there’s a risk of locking users out of a service, which leads to a number of good practices:

Whenever pinning, it’s important to have safety-valves such as not enforcing pinning (i.e. failing open) when the pins haven’t been updated recently, including a “backup” key pin, and having fallback mechanisms for bootstrapping.

These mechanisms are hard for individual sites to manage, say Google engineers, which, as mentioned, led to the RFC being deprecated. As a matter of fact, Google removed public key pinning from Chrome in 2017. But key pinning may still have its own use cases, including web browsers, automatic software updates, and package managers, where client and server are operated by the same entity.

Specifically, in Google’s case, thanks to the control that the company has on its browser, Chrome embeds pinned certificates (pins) for all Google properties. This means every HTTPS access is only authenticated through a key belonging to the embedded set of pins.

To fully understand what role key pinning plays into Chrome…

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