Ransomware attacks have increased significantly over the past year. There were 93% more ransomware attacks carried out in the first half of 2021 than the same period last year.

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Webinar: Ransomware Negotiator - Ask Me Anything
By Editorial Team on Sep 6, 2021 11:08:00 AM
Topics: News Blog Webinar Ransomware Events
A Disgruntled Threat Actor Provides a Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Ransomware Group’s Playbook
By Editorial Team on Aug 6, 2021 2:09:02 PM
Background
On 5 August 2021, a seemingly disgruntled Russian-speaking threat actor claiming to work as an affiliate for the popular ransomware group Conti leaked on the underground forum XSS a 113 MB archive of training materials and tools allegedly used by Conti to conduct its ransomware attacks (Figure 1).
Topics: Blog Ransomware
GroupSense and Airgap Partnership Helps Companies Prepare for and Defend Against Ransomware Attacks
By Editorial Team on Jul 28, 2021 10:00:00 AM
Arlington, Va. and Santa Clara, Calif. – July 28, 2021 – GroupSense, a digital risk protection services company, and Airgap, a cybersecurity provider of the industry’s first agentless Ransomware Kill Switch™, today announced a partnership to help customers prepare for and defend against ransomware attacks. By combining GroupSense’s Ransomware Response Readiness Subscription (R3S) service offering with Airgap’s Ransomware Kill Switch™ annual SaaS subscription, customers can microsegment their networks to automatically prevent the spread of ransomware during the incident mitigation lifecycle, and also have a comprehensive and tested ransomware “playbook” for mitigating the damage caused by these attacks.
Topics: News Press Releases Ransomware
Kaseya Ransomware Incident
By Editorial Team on Jul 2, 2021 5:43:58 PM
GroupSense analysts became aware of a wide-spread attack leveraging Kaseya’s Vector Signal Analysis (VSA) platform, commonly in use by Managed Service Providers.
Topics: Blog Ransomware
GroupSense and CipherTrace Partner to Reduce Cyrptocurrency Cybercrime
By Editorial Team on Jun 9, 2021 8:45:00 AM
Arlington, Va. – June 08, 2021 – GroupSense, a digital risk protection services company, and leading crypotcurrency intelligence company CipherTrace, accounce combining their threat intelligence offerings for enterprise clients who are victims of ransomware attacks.
Topics: News Press Releases
GroupSense Unveils Ransomware Response Readiness Assessment
By Editorial Team on May 19, 2021 8:45:00 AM
Since the publishing of this blog post, GroupSense has rebranded the R3A into the Ransomware Response Readiness Subscription (R3S). You can find more information on the R3S service here.
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ARLINGTON, Va., May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- GroupSense, a digital risk protection services company, today announced its Ransomware Response Readiness Assessment (R3A) service offering.
GroupSense's threat intelligence team, including experts who have extensive experience remediating ransomware attacks, will provide three core functions as part of this new service: a readiness assessment, to identify gaps in ransomware response capabilities; a response playbook, to provide a step-by-step action plan should an attack occur; and a tabletop exercise, to test and validate the playbook.
Topics: News Press Releases
SIM Swapping: What Is It and How to Protect Yourself From It
By Editorial Team on Apr 27, 2021 12:15:57 PM
Recently, a hacker known as PeteRepete leaked over 533 million Facebook users’ personal information online. There were no passwords in the database, but it did contain full names, phone numbers, email addresses, employer information, and a few other pieces of information from Facebook users’ profiles. GroupSense confirmed only a small portion of the records contained email addresses, but almost all of the records contained a phone number.
Topics: Blog
Dropbox Security Concerns
By Editorial Team on Mar 9, 2021 9:00:00 AM
Users quickly adopted the cloud storage tool Dropbox at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to alleviate file sharing issues and facilitate group work. Updates to Dropbox Spaces, a project management tool, reflect this shift, easing communications for remote work.1 The file-sharing company seeks to enhance collaboration and information-sharing within a distributed workforce, both now and in the future.
Topics: Blog
GroupSense Doubles Customer Base and Reports Significant Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth in 2020
By Editorial Team on Feb 10, 2021 8:45:00 AM
GroupSense, a digital risk protection services company, today announced several milestones from a successful 2020, including doubling its customers base, recording 60 percent year-over-year revenue growth and adding eight strategic partnerships, among many other accomplishments.
Topics: News Press Releases
Major US City Signs Deal with GroupSense for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation and Supply Chain Cybersecurity Services
By Editorial Team on Jan 19, 2021 1:30:00 PM
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- GroupSense, a digital risk protection services company, today announced it has signed a deal with a major U.S. city to provide its COVID-19 Vaccine Threat Protection offering. This first-of-its-kind service offering uses cyber threat monitoring, similar to the approach GroupSense uses in its Election Threat Protection offering. This service provides the most comprehensive package available to protect the city and its millions of residents against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, disinformation and supply disruptions from cyberattacks, including ransomware attacks.