Let me remind you that we also wrote that Attackers hacked cybersecurity company Qualys through Accellion FTA.
Bleeping Computer writes that LockBit did not report exactly which files were stolen from Mandiant systems, and the list of files on the leak page was empty. However, it showed a file named mandiantyellowpress.com.7z [...]
Cyberthreat detection time has been reduced to 21 days in 2021 compared to 24 days in 2020. Ransomware was detected on average within five days, while other attacks went undetected for 36 days in 2021, compared to 45 days in 2020.
However, the overall situation is getting better as more companies partner with third-party cybersecurity firms, and government agencies and cybersecurity companies often notify victims of attacks, resulting in faster detection.
One more positive trend: let me remind you that we wrote [...]
In 2020, experts discovered 650 new hack groups, and also removed about 500 groups from their threat tracker due to duplication and overlap with previously known clusters.
Among FireEye’s 1,900 known hacker groups, there are both “government” hackers (APT) and financially motivated groups (FIN), as well as unclassified groups (UNC, when it is not enough information to place them in one of the first two categories.
Analysts [...]