Hi and welcome to malicious life in collaboration with Cyboreism.

Next month on July 14th, Asaf de Han, Senior Director and the Head of Threat Research at Cyberreason,

will be doing an online webinar on the topic of the State of Ransomware 2020.

We already had Asaf on our show a couple of times before, so I figured this would be a great opportunity

for us to talk to As suff again and learn about the current trends in Ransomware.

And in particular, one very interesting and worrisome trend.

The shift from the classic Rquote classic ransomware scheme to actual blackmail.

If you would like to watch the webinar, which is happening on July 14th, you can register on malicious. Life slash. on Great to have you again. So firstly, tell us a little bit about the upcoming webinar. What are some of the topics that you'll be presenting there?

Yeah, so actually it's going to be a really cool webinar. It's going to be led by me and my colleague Jim Hung, who's the director of incident response engineering at Cyber Reason.

And we're going to cover the evolution of ransomware across three decades actually and we're going to talk about the trends and ships that we're seeing within this cybercrime ecosystem.

So that's going to be like first part of the webinar and the second part will be dedicated

to lessons learned from incidents response.

We're going to provide some insights and recommendation

based on some of the more sophisticated attacks

that we've been seeing since the beginning of the year.

Yeah, so ransomware is, I think, the number one threat currently on most organizations

map, so to speak.

Gonna be very interesting.

I hope I can also join the webinar myself, but we're going to talk in this, you know, short conversation

that we're going to have about one particular topic which I found, as I said, very interesting,

and that's the shift from ransomware to blackmail a very new

development in in ransomware so let's start from the basics what's the basic difference

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