CATEGORY: Cyber Attacks and Breaches
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The Rise of Insider Threats

Imagine a scenario where an employee receives an email from a colleague, asking for login credentials to a valuable application within their organization. The recipient,

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Breaking Down Ransomware-as-a-Service

What is Ransomware-as-a-Service? Ransomware-as-a-service is a business model where ransomware operators and third parties, called “affiliates,” work together to launch ransomware attacks. RaaS was first

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Types of Spoofing Attacks

In the spring of 2024, the FBI warned U.S citizens of a spear phishing campaign by state-sponsored North Korean threat actors. By exploiting an improperly

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The Dangers of Fileless Malware

One of the more common forms of fileless malware that’s making the rounds across organizations cloud environments, is something called PyLoose. In rotation since 2014,

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Top Government Cyber Attacks

Government entities were in the top five industries targeted by both ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks in 2023, according to Arctic Wolf. Additionally,

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Is Ransomware Malware?

Over the past few years, ransomware attack rates and ransom amounts have climbed so significantly that the cyber attack has broken out of the IT

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The Top 10 Ransomware TTPs

In Arctic Wolf’s The State of Cybersecurity: 2024 Trends Report, we asked organizations what their primary area of concern was regarding cybersecurity, and for the

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The History of Ransomware

While often considered a newer threat, and rightly so given its fast-rising dominance among the cybercrime landscape, ransomware is not a recent innovation in the

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A Brief History of Cybercrime

Over the past decade, cybercrime has become a big business — a $1.5T industry with an entire ecosystem of criminal organizations run like legitimate organizations.

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