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Does Cloud Backup Protect Against Ransomware?

As of 2024, 75 active ransomware groups targeted healthcare industries, businesses, and individuals with the aim of threatening these individuals with data loss or leaks in return for large payouts to decrypt this data. Many security organizations and cybersecurity experts are fighting to prevent ransomware from becoming common. One question on the minds of many people related to this topic is: Does cloud backup protect against ransomware?

HellCat Ransomware: What You Need To Know

HellCat is the name of a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that first came to prominence in the second half of 2024. Like many other ransomware operations, HellCat breaks into organisations, steals sensitive files, and encrypts computer systems - demanding a ransom payment for a decryption key and to prevent the leaking of stolen files.

Master Advanced Threat Investigation: Forensic Analysis with Cato Sandbox

In this video, we walk you through how Cato Networks' anti-malware and NextGen anti-malware solutions block both known and unknown threats in real time—*before* they can spread. But stopping malware is only the beginning. Learn how Cato Sandbox takes your cybersecurity strategy to the next level by: We’ll show you how to quickly enable Cato Sandbox, demonstrate real-time malware blocking, and explore a full forensic analysis via the Cato Management Application (CMA). Watch as we break down.

Babuk2 Bjorka: The Evolution of Ransomware for 'Data Commoditization'

An investigation that started with a tip from one of our threat intel sources about the revival of the Babuk (figure 1) threat group has led Trustwave SpiderLabs to uncover what appears to be a paradigm shift in the ransomware landscape. Figure 1. SpiderLabs telemetry (January 2025 events). Figure 1A. February to March events. Figure 1B. SpiderLabs telemetry (March 2025 events).

Malware hiding in plain sight: Spying on North Korean Hackers

On March 13th 2025, our malware analysis engine alerted us to a potential malicious package that was added to NPM. First indications suggested this would be a clear-cut case, however, when we started peeling back the layers things weren’t quite as they seemed. Here is a story about how sophisticated nation state actors can hide malware within packages.

Launching Aikido Malware - Open Source Threat Feed

Our Aikido Intel team has been identifying undisclosed open-source vulnerabilities using LLM-driven analysis and human verification. Now, we’re expanding our supply chain security research to detect and track malware in open-source packages, cheaper, better, & faster than what exists today.

Ep 4: Naming and Shaming

As Chinese hackers continue their raid of American companies, the threat reaches new levels of urgency, not so much for the sophistication of these hackers, but because of the sheer volume of attacks. And yet, victims continue to keep their breaches under wraps, and the government is hamstrung in what they can say because most everything they know about Chinese cyberespionage is classified.

SquareX Discloses Browser-Native Ransomware that Puts Millions at Risk

From WannaCry to the MGM Resorts Hack, ransomware remains one of the most damaging cyberthreats to plague enterprises. Chainalysis estimates that corporations spend nearly $1 billion dollars on ransom each year, but the greater cost often comes from the reputational damage and operational disruption caused by the attack.