GroupSense Tracelight Fuse empowers MSPs and MSSPs to automate remediation actions

GroupSense announced that it has made its security intelligence available to managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) through a new Tracelight Fuse security threat intelligence offering. GroupSense provides finish… Continue reading GroupSense Tracelight Fuse empowers MSPs and MSSPs to automate remediation actions

GroupSense VIP Monitoring service enables enterprises to proactively protect executives

GroupSense’s VIP Monitoring service assesses and monitors high-profile individuals, executive identities, and their extended personal networks to detect exposure and threats, helping to prevent identity theft, fraud, ransomware and other cyber-attacks…. Continue reading GroupSense VIP Monitoring service enables enterprises to proactively protect executives

Chat logs show how Egregor, an $80 million ransomware gang, handled negotiations with little mercy

In a series of ransomware payment negotiations last December, operatives from a gang known as “Egregor” alternated from treating their victims with surprising civility, and behaving like cartoonish movie villains. “The Egregor Team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,” they’d say at intervals of their chat room communications, sometimes in the middle of an extortion back-and-forth. “We wish you wisdom in your decision making and financial stability in this difficult time for us all. Happy Holidays!” In another exchange, they weren’t as kind, threatening to leak victims’ data and publish it on a website as a warning to other organizations that might fall in the group’s crosshairs. “We simply need to determine what category you should be placed in. In the category of those who are ready to negotiate and pay or in the category of scarecrows on our news site,” one exchange read. “It’s not […]

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