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A new ransomware strain written in Python called CryPy was disclosed by Avast malware analyst Jakub Kroustek. It seems that Pyton is getting more popular as a ransomware development ...
The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon's lawyers are looking at using the "material adverse clause' to renegotiate the terms of the $4.8 billion deal they struck on July. Verizon’s ...
Nearly half of ransomware attacks are aimed at office workers, but almost two-thirds of those polled are unaware of the threat More than 60% of US office workers are unaware of ransomware ...
The divorce between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has been used by the bad guys for a "celebrity death hoax" which unfortunately is high-grade click bait. It's the most recent one to hit ...
Business Insider started an article with the following: "Imagine you've got a meeting with a client, and shortly before you leave, they send you over a confirmation and a map with ...
CSO had an excellent article that states the case that you need to get rid of old-school awareness training which you do for compliance reasons only. Their photo illustration was funny as ...
There is a new insidious IRS scam that you need to warn your employees, friends and family about, and inform your HR department to start with. Seasoned internet criminals are sending ...
(Tampa Bay, FL) October 9, 2016 --- KnowBe4 is excited to announce we were able to beat our stellar Q2, and maintain our explosive year over year growth, Q3 2016 being 369% over Q3 2015. ...
I have been knee deep into Ransomware since September 2013 when the granddaddy of modern ransomware CryptoLocker made well over 20 million bucks in a few months. But sometimes I learn ...
Eric Chabrow over at the Government Info Security blog found an interesting post by Stuart Coulson, who is a director of a hosting provider in the U.K. Coulson wrote a somewhat longish ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. This Monday morning many of our customers came in to work to find a rather rude surprise lurking in their inboxes: a massive Cerber ...
We are stoked to announce the new integration with Active Directory! The Active Directory Integration (ADI) helps you easily upload user data and eliminate manual updates by automatically ...
Great joint survey by CSO, CIO and ComputerWorld by Amy Bennett which is excelllent ammo to add to a budget request that needs to be approved by a C-level exec. Here's why: "If you sense ...
We predicted that this would happen on September 23rd when the news broke that Yahoo lost "at least" 500 Million credentials. Just for a change I'm quoting myself here: :-D "Right, that ...
Here is a ransomware horror story for you... An obscure 2-year old ransomware strain called Virlock has a nasty feature: it is capable of stealthily spreading itself via cloud storage and ...
Eastern European organized crime, not state-sponsored hackers, were behind the record breaking 2014 Yahoo data breach that exposed information about hundreds of millions of Yahoo user ...
When we talk with folks outside the security industry about what we see from the bad guys on a daily basis, we often get the response, "Wow! That's really sneaky." And it's true. The bad ...
Of course everyone knows that hacking into a computer is a federal crime, and infecting a system with ransomware already falls into that bucket. However, California’s SB-1137, signed into ...
