Cybercriminals continued a barrage of attacks in 2019, spurred on by botnets of infected IoT devices and by attacker interest in the Eternal Blue vulnerability. A report from F-Secure documents a steep increase in attack traffic in 2019 that was unmatched by previous years. There have been 2.8 billion attack events in the second half of the year. After 2.9 billion in the first half of the year, the yearly total rings in at 5.7 … Continue reading Ransomware getting more fearsome, but there’s reason for optimism