Keeping you updated on the latest ransomware attack vectors, strains, decryptors, families and trends to help you avoid becoming infected.
An Indiana hospital paid a ransom of $55,000 to get rid of ransomware that had infected its systems and was hindering operations last week. The infection took root last week, on Thursday, ...
OK, here is something unusual and really scary. KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer Kevin Mitnick called me with some chilling news. A white hat hacker friend of his developed a working ...
Interesting research by Enterprise Strategy Group: 63% of organizations experienced an attempted ransomware attack in 2017, with 22% reporting these incidents occurred on a weekly basis. ...
New data shows that file-less malware attacks are now the majority of all attacks this year, and ransomware grows to a whopping 5 billion industry. Fileless malware attacks using ...
Wouldn't it be great if your users had a way to "roll back time" when they forgot to think before they click on a bad link? Now they can! We are excited to announce Second Chance, a ...
Attackers behind this form of file-encrypting malware - which has similarities with Locky - think that if the victim can set their own price, they're more likely to pay. A form of ...
A hacker’s 1 p.m. deadline to pay $23,000 passed Wednesday, and Mecklenburg County has not decided whether to pay the ransom for a cyber-attack that “paralyzed” the county. County manager ...
Shipping company Clarksons has fallen victim to a major ransomware attack that could result in the exposure of private data, the company warned today. The statement continued: "Our ...
The Scarab ransomware strain is updated again and spreads via Necurs botnet in a massive 12.5 million campaign, mostly targeting .com domains. Scarab was spotted June 2017 for the first ...
Ransomware goes prime time: TV Show Grey's Anatomy characters Bailey and Arizona are unable to access medical records on the computer and an I.T. specialist named Tim notes that cardiac ...
Steve Ranger at TechRepublic did a good job summarizing the direction of future threats we are going to have to deal with. "After at least a dozen years in the shadows, cyberwarfare is ...
Knowing what ransomware recovery methods are available is important as the threat continues to grow. Expert Judith Myerson at TechTarget outlines what the NIST recommends for enterprises. ...
A new ransomware strain called Ordinypt is currently targeting victims in Germany, but instead of encrypting users' documents, the ransomware rewrites files with random data. Discovered ...
During the attacks in eastern Europe with the Bad Rabbit ransomware, a more insidious attack was taking place in Ukraine under its cover, Reuters reported. Serhiy Demedyuk, head of the ...
Doug Olenick at SC Media reported on something quite surprising. This is the first time we've heard about this! Whether out of shame for being victimized or confusion over what to do more ...
Sophos released their 2018 malware forecast this week. Their predictions would make any IT Pro concerned, a PDF of their report is here. Read on for your executive summary. Ransomware ...
Organizations in Russia, Ukraine and a few hours later also the U.S. are under siege from Bad Rabbit , a new strain of ransomware which is basically a new, improved NotPetya version 2, ...
In a classic "divert their attention", the Taiwan Far East Bank was first attacked with spear phishing emails that pointed to malicious executables, which were clicked on by employees. ...
A new report from Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) used their data and modeling techniques to come up with an estimate of ransomware sales transactions activity on the Dark Web. ...
News has surfaced that the overseas Dark Overlord cyber mafia struck again and penetrated the Columbia Falls School Board system with ransomware. The seven-page ransom letter was filled ...
