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[TechWeb]( Follow Dark Reading: [RSS]( September 23, 2021 LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY [Who Is BlackMatter?]( Researchers piece together the origins of the group that made headlines this week as the perpetrator behind a ransomware attack on New Cooperative. [Password Reuse Problems Persist Despite Known Risks]( The vast majority of users worry about compromised passwords, but two-thirds continue to use the same password or a variation, a survey finds. [UK MoD Data Breach Shows Cybersecurity Must Protect Both People and Data]( The UK MoD has failed to protect personally identifiable information (PII) for Afghan interpreters; the incident highlights how avoidable cybersecurity mistakes can have devastating consequences. [Why Security Pros Should Rethink Their Focus on Information Resilience]( Resilience is often defined as being able to withstand disruptions and rebound to a previous state. But a system's ability to return to a prior state doesn't mean it's sufficiently resilient. [Midmarket Security: Think You’re Safe? Think Again]( Gone is the false perception that large enterprises, banks, and financial institutions are the only organizations under attack. [Strained Relationships Hinder DevSecOps Innovation]( A new survey from Forrester and VMware finds more than half of developers still think security gets in the way. [MORE NEWS /]( [MORE COMMENTARY]( HOT TOPICS [10 Ways to Avoid Zero-Trust Failure]( Here are the prerequisites to have in order before getting past the zero-trust gate. [Microsoft Warns of Uptick in MSHTML Attacks]( Attackers leveraging the flaw are using infrastructure associated with other criminal groups, including ransomware-as-a-service operators, the company says. [Why Cryptomining Malware Is a Harbinger of Future Attacks]( Crypto thieves rely on users not noticing installation of their tiny payload on thousands of machines, or the CPU cycles being siphoned off to perpetuate the schemes. [MORE]( EDITORS' CHOICE [6 Lessons From Major Data Breaches This Year]( Though many incidents stemmed from familiar security failures, they served up — or resurfaced — some important takeaways. [New Cooperative's Ransomware Attack Underscores Threat to Food & Agriculture]( The Iowa grain cooperative took its systems offline in response to a security incident earlier this week. LATEST FROM THE EDGE [What Are the Different Types of Cyber Insurance?]( Even with the best cybersecurity defenses in place, organizations can fall victim to a cyberattack. 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The increasing complexity of the threat landscape means we can no longer depend on next-gen antivirus (NGAV) or EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) alone to protect against sophisticated attacks. It's well known that endpoint attacks ... [MORE WEBINARS]( FEATURED REPORTS - [Enterprise Cybersecurity Plans in a Post-Pandemic World]( As the COVID-19 pandemic eases, IT security threats and the challenges involved in responding to them are trending upward. Security leaders expect that cyberattacks like ransomware, phishing, and malware will increase even as the pandemic eventually recedes. 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