Director of Content and Editorial at RL. Paul is a reporter, editor and industry analyst with 20 years’ experience covering the cybersecurity space. He is the founder and editor in chief at The Security Ledger, a cybersecurity news website. His writing about cyber security has appeared in publications including Forbes, The Christian Science Monitor, MIT Technology Review, The Economist Intelligence Unit, CIO Magazine, ZDNet and Fortune Small Business. He has appeared on NPR’s Marketplace Tech Report, KPCC AirTalk, Fox News Tech Take, Al Jazeera and The Oprah Show.
ReversingLabs data shows that attachments that use decades-old scripting languages like XLM and VBA are often malicious. Still, Microsoft’s move to harden Excel and other Office apps may not move the security needle.
Almost two weeks after Russian authorities claimed to have dismantled the REvil ransomware group with a string of arrests, evidence for a reduction in the availability of REvil implants has yet to appear.
We came into 2021 well aware of the risks ransomware posed. Even that didn’t prepare us for what was to come, as ransomware gangs and nation states launched attacks on critical infrastructure with cyber-physical consequences
Ransomware may have grabbed most of the headlines, but history will remember 2021 as the year that governments and companies finally woke up to the lurking threat posed by vulnerable software supply chains
This widespread vulnerability is an object lesson for why software development organizations and their customers should be using SBOMs.