Interpol, the international police organization, has issued an alert following a rise in ransomware attacks on hospitals and other healthcare institutions on the front line of the battle against the raging Covid-19 pandemic.
Tags: Phishing Filter // User Education
A survey of more than 2,700 risk management experts from over 100 countries has revealed that cyber incidents are now the main peril for businesses.
Tags: Email Continuity // Risk Management // Secure Email Platform
The computers at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen have been offline for days. Last week, Klinikum Fürth (a large municipal hospital in southern Germany) was forced to disconnect from the emergency care services network. On the very same day, the City of New Orleans was caused to take precautionary steps after a virus had been discovered. Attacks on communal institutions and services around the globe are indeed becoming ever more frequent.
Tags: Email Continuity // Patient Zero Detection // Secure Email Platform
Tags: Email Security
Specialty insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) surveyed roughly 2400 companies around the globe for its Risk Barometer 2019 to determine which risks they see their businesses exposed to. “Cyber Incidents” ranked second on the resulting list of answers.
Tags: Email Security
IBM security experts X-Force have released their “Threat Intelligence Index” for 2019. It once again reveals that a large portion of attacks are conducted by means of phishing emails.
Tags: Email Security // Office 365 // Phishing
The European Patent Office has granted Retarus a Europe-wide patent for the Patient Zero Detection® technology developed by the company.
Tags: Patent // Patient Zero Detection
Facebook would like to give its 2 billion users more control over their own data, before the new EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into force directly at the end of May 2018.
Tags: Compliance // GDPR
This year, Accenture and the Ponemon Institute released their “Cost of Cyber Crime Study” for the 8th time. It contains all manner of interesting findings.
Tags: Email Security // Patient Zero Detection
For the tenth year, Verizon has published its “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR). The 2017 edition once again reveals frightening shortcomings.
Tags: Early detection // Email Security // Malware // Patient Zero Detection
By now, it is common knowledge that cyber attacks can turn out extremely expensive for companies. But one seldom sees concrete figures.
Tags: Email Security // Malware // Patient Zero Detection
Ransomware is a very real threat. Follow the adage; it is better to be safe than sorry.
Tags: Email Security // Ransomware
On the past weekend the headlines were coming thick and fast about the ransomware known as “WannaCry”, which had paralyzed computers around the globe – even impacting on critical infrastructure.
Tags: Email Security // Patient Zero Detection // Ransomware
Russian IT security company Kaspersky Lab has released a very detailed analysis of global spam traffic in 2016.
Tags: Email Security // Patient Zero Detection // Ransomware
70 of all companies previously held to ransom by perpetrators of a ransomware attack ended up paying the ransom demanded in order to regain access to their data.
Tags: Email Security // Patient Zero Detection // Ransomware
Last year, the private sector spent more than 75 billion dollars on security software. But have systems and data become any safer?
Tags: Data Leakage Prevention // Email Security // IT security
About one third of all businesses has experienced ransomware attacks in the last six months. No virus protection software can offer 100% protection from such attacks. Nevertheless, security can be boosted substantially with the fourfold virus scan from Retarus E-Mail Security Services.
Tags: Email Security // Locky // Ransomware // Study
After Locky, here comes KePanger, PowerWare and Petya: Retarus is currently observing a significantly higher incidence of the crypto trojan Locky, as well as new variations. Whilst in February only around 3% of all incoming emails were infected, the number of messages filtered in March due to viruses had already risen to 17%. This corresponds to a fivefold rise in comparison with the previous month and can be explained primarily by the large increase in ransomware.
Tags: Email Security // Locky // Ransomware // Security Alert
In recent days, many inboxes have been receiving emails that at first sight appear to carry joyous news. In the subject line they announce a tax refund, and the sender seems to be “Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs” (HMRC) – the British tax authority. So every recipient with business ties to the United Kingdom is likely to take a closer look.
Tags: Email Security // HMRC // IT security // Phishing
Since last week the aggressive blackmail Trojan Locky has been causing mischief on computers around the globe. Retarus expands existing spam and virus protection functions and switch all customers over to fourfold virus scanning for the duration of the current, acute threat. To protect yourself as well as possible from attacks by Locky and similar ransomware, users should additionally be vigilant when running macros.
Tags: Email Security // Locky // Online Fraud // Ransomware // Trojan