Suffolk County heightens the importance of cybersecurity for local municipalities- Ransomware Attacks Increase-New Royal Ransomware emerges in multi-million dollar attacks-Cyberattack on InterContinental Hotels Disrupts Business at Franchises

In this week’s episode, the cybersecurity experts Bryan Hornung, Reginald Andre, Randy Bryan, and Ryan O’Hara discuss a particular industry out there that is a super soft target right now and the cyber criminals know it. Who is it and why should people be aware of this?

Next, the crew talks about some data that they gathered around ransomware attacks increasing and not only increasing but these ransomware groups are changing their tactics faster then what they thought. What are these changes?

Lastly, the team talks about a hotel chain that was cyber attack over the labor day weekend and now out 3-6 weeks stories are coming out.

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Articles used:

https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2022/09/ransomware-attack-on-suffolk-county-heightens-importance-of-cybersecurity-for-local-municipalities/

https://www.msspalert.com/cybersecurity-research/research-20-of-all-reported-ransomware-attacks-occurred-in-the-last-12-months/

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3674848/ransomware-operators-might-be-dropping-file-encryption-in-favor-of-corrupting-files.html

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-royal-ransomware-emerges-in-multi-million-dollar-attacks

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cyberattack-on-intercontinental-hotels-disrupts-business-at-franchisees-11664184602