Monitoring deep, dark and surface web to detect exposure of your sensitive data, secret projects and initiatives, privileged users, critical systems, IT infrastructure, and more.
Monitoring and alerting of third party data breaches impacting your employees’ emails, usernames, and personally identifiable information.
Assess the risk footprint and security posture of key business relationships to get a handle on external risk introduced through your extended attack surface.

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Digital risk monitoring of key personnel with telemetry and risk metrics. VIPRecon provides broad coverage of social media, deep and dark web, as well as physical threat assessments.
Our Ransomware Response Readiness Assessment, Playbook and Table Top Exercise gives your organization the best chance to survive and recover.
Gain visibility of your digital footprint by reaching into the most active areas of the cyber underground.
Fully managed and tailored Threat Intelligence services that becomes an extension of your current security processes and provides real-time visibility on new threats.
Providing research and investigations into known threats, to save security teams time and stress during a cyber emergency.

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GroupSense offers a comprehensive package of services for assessing and responding to ransomware attacks, including negotiations with threat actors.
Actively researching and monitoring threats from vendors or third-party companies that can affect organizational security.
Monitoring for threats to elections, VIPs, and more on social media to proactively prevent or mitigate digital risk.
Focusing on the threats and risks that matter to your security processes and providing intelligence and insights to prevent or mitigate digital risk.
Taking the next step in security services, by proactively taking down phishing sites or anonymously interacting with threat actors to provide better intelligence.
Active monitoring of your brand's digital assets to protect its reputation and stop further brand abuse from targeting unsuspecting victims.

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Combining your cyber and fraud programs to effectively fight threat actors continually scamming or threatening assets within an organization.
Executives are prime targets for fraudulent activities, but with a proactive approach, any attacks or threats can be neutralized before causing any damage.
Governments, political parties and candidates must all act now to activate cyber threat intelligence services to harden their information security and get ahead of inevitable cyber threats to the election process.
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Waikato DHB could 'use some help' with ransomware clean up

By External Author on Jul 10, 2021 10:00:00 AM

Kurtis Minder is the chief executive of GroupSense, a US-based company that deals in the prevention of and response to ransomware and other cyber attacks.

Topics: News Video Ransomware

The anatomy of a ransomware attack

By External Author on Jul 9, 2021 10:00:00 AM

Just hours before the Fourth of July weekend, a huge, coordinated cyberattack hit hundreds of businesses across the world. A group of hackers broke in by exploiting a hole in the software code of an information technology company with a wide-ranging client base, then demanded $70 million in ransom.

Topics: News Ransomware

Ransomware Negotiations Spark New Business For Cybersecurity Companies

By External Author on Jul 8, 2021 11:00:00 AM

The rise of ransomware attacks directed at U.S. companies is creating demand for a new service from cybersecurity companies: ransomware negotiations. 

Topics: News Video Ransomware

Ransomware group demands $70 million for Kaseya attack

By External Author on Jul 5, 2021 9:45:00 AM

The ransomware group REvil has demanded a $70 million payment in Bitcoin for a decryptor tool following its attack on the software vendor Kaseya, cyber researchers say.

Topics: News Ransomware

Why has data stolen in the HSE cyberattack not yet appeared online?

By External Author on Jul 3, 2021 9:30:00 AM

 
Topics: News Ransomware

Kaseya Ransomware Incident

By Editorial Team on Jul 2, 2021 5:43:58 PM

GroupSense analysts became aware of a wide-spread attack leveraging Kaseya’s Vector Signal Analysis (VSA) platform, commonly in use by Managed Service Providers.

 

Topics: Blog Ransomware

Negotiating with ransomware criminals creates new business for security professionals

By External Author on Jun 29, 2021 12:00:00 PM

A growing swarm of ransomware attacks has created a cottage industry of tech whizzes willing to do what companies and law enforcement won’t: negotiate with the cybercriminals taking systems and data hostage.

Topics: News Ransomware

Could curtailing cryptocurrency calm cyber crime wave?

By External Author on Jun 28, 2021 2:30:00 PM

Besides outright banning ransom payments, one of the most widely circulated policy ideas to curtail ransomware would be to treat cryptocurrencies as a bonafide component of the financial system: require cryptocurrency exchanges or the cryptocurrencies themselves to abide by regulations that reduce anonymity and prevent money laundering.

Topics: News Ransomware

Podcast: Kurtis Minder - The Seven Dirty Words of Cybersecurity

By External Author on Jun 22, 2021 12:00:00 PM

If you have been reading about or watching news shows discussing ransomware, more than likely, you have seen Kurtis Minder. He has been nearly omnipresent across multiple platforms because his team at Groupsense has been putting in the work to help the victims of ransomware attacks negotiate with attackers in order to get their data back.

Topics: News Ransomware Podcast

Monero emerges as crypto of choice for cybercriminals

By External Author on Jun 22, 2021 9:00:00 AM

For cybercriminals looking to launder illicit gains, bitcoin has long been the payment method of choice. But another cryptocurrency is coming to the fore, promising to help make dirty money disappear without a trace.

Topics: News Ransomware