Health Care Systems Remain Targets of Ransomware And Phishing Attacks in 2017

Aug 25, 2017 4:41:25 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Health care networks and providers are squarely in the cross hairs of ransomware cyber criminals and if the current rate of attacks continue it will likely exceed last years' events ...

Inside The New York Hospital That Was Down For 6 Weeks Due To Ransomware

Aug 22, 2017 10:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

If you ever needed ammo to convince budget holders that you need more IT security resources, this is the link to send them. It is a great discussion-starter how an attack like this would ...

New Report: Ransomware Attack Downtime, Not Ransom Demand, is the Business Killer

Aug 12, 2017 10:58:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have been saying this here for the last few years, and I am encouraged to see it now confirmed by a new survey from our friends at Malwarebytes. They released their “Second Annual State ...

Locky Ransomware Returns with Phishing Campaign Pushing The Diablo6 Variant

Aug 12, 2017 9:39:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our friend Larry Abrams at Bleepingcomputer wrote August 9th: "Through a large malspam campaign, Locky is back and currently being heavily distributed worldwide. While Locky was at one ...

HealthCare Industry Needs Prescription For Next Wave of Ransomware Threats

Aug 12, 2017 9:05:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to a recent article in HealthCare IT News, "Ransomware 2.0: It's Coming, and Healthcare Needs to get Prepared", the next wave of ransomware may be much harder to spot, -- and ...

Key Ransomware Money Laundering Operation Taken Down and Owner Arrested in Greece

Aug 8, 2017 1:56:53 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than 4 Billion Dollars May Have Been Laundered If you’ve been the victim of a ransomware attack you know cybercrooks almost always demand payment in Bitcoin. Now we know that the US ...

Cerber Ransomware Can Now Steal Bitcoin Wallet Data And Browser Passwords

Aug 5, 2017 11:57:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Russian 800-pound gorilla Dridex Banking Trojan gang who are also behind the Cerber ransomware have just upped their game. Cerber is part of the small set of professional ransomware ...

CEO Fraud Attacks Were Far More Lucrative than Ransomware over the Past 3 Years

Jul 22, 2017 10:07:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cisco's midyear report released this week showed that CEO Fraud netted cybercrime five times more money than ransomware over the last three years. The surprising highlight of Cisco's ...

Ransomware attack on KQED TV, Radio Station wiped out pre-recorded segments

Jul 20, 2017 7:29:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KQED, a TV and radio station in San Francisco, is an example that shows how badly any organization can suffer when ransomware hits their network. KQED has been trying to recover from the ...

Evil Corp Hires Criminal Hackers For Highly Targeted Ransomware Infections

Jul 19, 2017 5:47:53 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

So, here is something new...

Business Braces for More Ransomware Assaults

Jul 15, 2017 5:14:01 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Baseline Mag has a great slide show with the results of an ISACA survey (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), a nonprofit group for IT and information systems ...

Cleveland Medical Associates Ransomware Infection Caused 22K-Record Databreach - How To Prevent This

Jul 8, 2017 5:25:58 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cleveland Medical Associates is offering about 22,000 patients identity protection services after a ransomware attack against the practice. The practice is offering a year of protective ...

NotPetya "ransomware" Froze Business At Global Law Firm DLA Piper

Jun 30, 2017 8:57:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kate Fazzini and Adam Janofsky at the Wall Street Journal wrote an excellent piece about the dangers of becoming collateral in global cyber warfare. They wrote: "This week’s “Petya” ...

[ALERT] NotPetya Is a Cyber Weapon, Not Ransomware

Jun 29, 2017 7:18:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yesterday morning, after monitoring this new outbreak for 24 hours, I came to the conclusion we were dealing with cyber warfare , and not ransomware . Two separate reports coming from ...

[ALERT] Looks Like A New Worldwide Ransomware Outbreak

Jun 27, 2017 10:55:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Motherboard reported: "A quickly-spreading, world-wide ransomware outbreak has reportedly hit targets in Spain, France, Ukraine, Russia, and other countries. This strain is deadlier than ...

Windows 10 Stops Ransomware Cold? Not So Fast!

Jun 25, 2017 8:46:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Recently, Microsoft claimed that no known ransomware could penetrate the new Win10 Creators Update.

Web Hosting Provider Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Attackers

Jun 20, 2017 9:51:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

South Korean web hosting company Nayana agreed to pay $1 million in Bitcoin after a ransomware attack hit 153 Linux servers. The attack took place June 10 and resulted in over 3,400 ...

[ALERT] New Fileless, Code-injecting Ransomware Bypasses Antivirus

Jun 18, 2017 11:59:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security researchers have discovered a new fileless ransomware in the wild, which injects malicious code into a legitimate system process (svchost.exe) on a targeted system and then ...

FIN10: Anatomy of a Ransomware Phishing Extortion Operation

Jun 17, 2017 2:39:47 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber security firm FireEye reported that that a number of Canadian mines and casinos were hacked by a group named FIN10 – FireEye labels FIN10 to be “one of the most disruptive threat ...

Did WannaCry Ransomware Escape North Korean Containment?

Jun 17, 2017 9:00:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Mike Mimoso at Kaspersky's Threatpost blog raised the theory that the ransomware wasn’t contained properly and spread before it was meant to be unleashed. Malware expert Jake Williams, ...

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