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GUEST OPINION: Despite high levels of awareness and significant investments in security measures, ransomware remains one of the biggest security challenges faced by organisations around the globe.

GUEST RESEARCH: For the past few years, hackers have increasingly targeted customers and businesses with tainted software boosted via ads. The recipe is simple – cyber-criminal groups set up fake websites for high-interest software and promote them on top of the results page through advertisements.

An Australian law firm's bid to try and use a court injunction to prevent publication of material stolen during a ransomware raid is unlikely to have any effect on the attackers behind the intrusion, a security professional says.

The parent company of a private defence contractor in India has been compromised by the Windows Alphv ransomware (aka BlackCat), with the group releasing a number of documents on the dark web and claiming to have stolen 2TB of data.

GUEST OPINION: The BlackCat/APLHV ransomware gang have continued their trend of targeting key critical infrastructure with their latest attack on Italy’s energy agency.

Security vendor Sophos has warned that the BlackCat ransomware gang is using the Brute Ratel penetration testing tool in its attacks.