article thumbnail

Changes Continue in Cyber Insurance

Pure Storage

With RaaS, pay-for-use malware provides easy access to the code and infrastructure to launch and maintain a ransomware attack. In 2010, cyber insurance premiums totaled a mere $600,000. First, attackers now have the advantage of ransomware as a service (RaaS) which has eliminated the need for hackers to write their own ransomware code.

article thumbnail

‘Countdown to Zero Day’ By Kim Zetter – Book Review

Plan B Consulting

The book is all about the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how the existence of this malware can have the same destructive capability as a kinetic attack! The book is all about the Stuxnet malware, which was used around 2010, developed allegedly by the Americans and Israelis to sabotage the Iranian nuclear programme.

Malware 52
article thumbnail

‘Countdown to Zero Day’ By Kim Zetter – Book Review

Plan B Consulting

The book is all about the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how the existence of this malware can have the same destructive capability as a kinetic attack! The book is all about the Stuxnet malware, which was used around 2010, developed allegedly by the Americans and Israelis to sabotage the Iranian nuclear programme.

Malware 52