“Email received by a victim will contain a link to an actor-controlled Google Drive document or other free online filehosting solutions, typically purporting to be a PDF file,” the CISA advisory said. Ryuk ransomware has been behind campaigns to deliver phishing emails with links to Google Drive documents, as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) explained in an advisory in October of last year.Īt that time, CISA, FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services said malicious cyber actors were targeting the Healthcare and Public Health sector with TrickBot and BazarLoader malware, often leading to ransomware attacks, data theft, and the disruption of healthcare services. Though not included in the Google post (for obvious reasons), Google products also make into ransomware-related news. Google is not immune from news linking it to ransomware attacks
Sometimes referred to as “double extortion” and “triple extortion,” ransomware groups are constantly evolving their tactics. While security wasn’t the impetus originally, schools increasingly see Chromebooks as more secure in the wake of a wave of high-profile ransomware attacks on education intuitions in the U.S. Schools, and education in general, have been moving to adopt Chromebooks.
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“Rollout of ChromeOS devices for users who work primarily in a browser can reduce an organization’s attack surface, such as relying too much on legacy Windows devices, which have been found to often be vulnerable to attacks,” according to the authors. “Chromebooks are designed to protect against phishing and ransomware attacks with a low on-device footprint, read-only, constantly invisibly updating Operating System, sandboxing, verified boot, Safe Browsing and Titan-C security chips,” the authors write. I own and use Chromebooks and agree that Chrome OS is more secure than Windows or the Mac (which I also use). The authors make good points about the security of Chromebooks.