How do people avoid ransomware attacks in 2022? It's early January 2022, there’s a ton of ransomware attacks out there right now. Cybercriminals ramped up at the beginning of 2021. Now, they are continuing through 2022. How can society stop these ransomware attacks, and how can people prevent themselves from being a victim of ransomware attack?
Well, unfortunately that answer is not so simple.
Today, this is going to be an update to the Buckeye cable company, the Buckeye Broadband ransomware attack or mail outage, where their customers' email were down due to ransomware. At the time, there was no knowledge of who their host was and that news surfaced before it was really known.
Today, there is an update to the Kronos Ransomware attack. Now, if you remember, Kronos was hit with a ransomware attack, and unfortunately, they've been down ever since, and they're still not back up yet. This is going to be an update as to why that is and what is going on and what this could mean for Kronos and the hundreds of thousands of.
A brand-new story has come out! Buckeye Broadband is having a little bit of an issue with their email services that they provide to their clients. Many people are probably wondering what is happening to their customers, and how this is impacting them? People also might be wondering where this is even coming from? There is a bit of twist to this story, so let’s take a look at what is going on with Buckeye Broadband today.
Ransomware attacks so far are on the rise in January! Especially, this recent ransomware attack towards Bernalillo County in New Mexico. On Wednesday, January 5th, 2022, Bernalillo County officials told all of their offices to temporarily close. Why? Let’s take a closer look into what’s going on over at Bernalillo County in New Mexico.
Today, January 3rd, 2022, we have our first significant ransomware attack underway. Currently, if you're in the hospitality industry, run a restaurant, hotel business, anything like that, you're going to want to pay attention. Schedulefly has been hit with a ransomware attack.
As we head into 2022, one of the more common targets for cybercriminals are companies going through a merger or acquisition. That's happening a lot out there today, especially with M&A companies. Cybercriminals are targeting companies that are going through being acquired or merging, and cybercriminals are all over this.
Kronos was recently hit with a massive ransomware attack. Kronos is a payroll & HR company. They are like an ADP to the Fortune 500 and large enterprises. They offer all kinds of services around payroll, getting paid, HR, workforce management, things like that.
Shutterfly services have been widely reported to have been hit with Conti ransomware. The company is famous for photo sharing and photo editing.
Many people do not realize that there's a lot of different services that Shutterfly has and that their services have been disrupted by the Conti ransomware group, which has become a pretty prolific ransomware group these days.
Today I want to talk about this Log4j, this JAVA vulnerability that's taken the news cycle by storm. It's something that has garnered a lot of attention. I haven't decided rightfully so yet or not. I feel the jury's still out on how big this will be.
