The ThreatSTOP Security Team has introduced a new list of ransomware targets. We highly recommend customers update their policies to include these targets for immediate increased protection from the growing number of ransomware attacks.

Imagine standing in line at a coffee shop, the place is brimming with people all shouting their order at the one overwhelmed barista. You place your order but he can’t hear you. You shout it, you scream it over the din of the thousands of people also ordering their coffee, but the barista just shrugs because he can’t get your order much less process it. No coffee for you. As you leave you realize those thousands of other customers aren’t even customers, they were just noise generated to keep you from getting your coffee.

You’ve been reading a lot about the DNS/DDOS attack. Nobody knows better than us what this means. Stay tuned for valuable insight from ThreatSTOP's Chief Scientist, Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of DNS.

"A trend that frightens me in IT right now is the growing notion that breaches are going to happen and are therefore unavoidable; almost even acceptable. This way of thinking is taking the focus away from preventing threats and almost glorifies the attackers for their ingenuity in the aftermath. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Accepting breaches as a cost of doing business is essentially inviting ransomware over for dinner."

ThreatSTOP 4.05 release includes:

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