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Ransomware

Keeping you updated on the latest ransomware attack vectors, strains, decryptors, families and trends to help you avoid becoming infected.

Europol warns ransomware has taken cybercrime ‘to another level’

Europol, the European Union’s police agency, has warned of the significantly rising threat posed by ransomware. As Associated Press reports, delegates at an international conference were ...

Massive Spam Campaigns Push New Locky Ransomware With Doubled Ransom

Bleepingcomputer posted: "Reports are coming in from multiple security researchers and security firms about increased activity from one of the groups spreading the Locky ransomware. These ...

This Ransomware Demands Nudes Instead of Bitcoin

Cyber extortion is a very profitable criminal business model. Now, as if it was inevitable, someone has added a new, perverse twist: demanding naked photographs instead of Bitcoin, ...

Barracuda Advanced Technology Group Tracks 20 Million Ransomware Phishing Attack

Barracuda Advanced Technology Group says it’s tracking a ransomware threat that has so far spawned about 20 million phishing emails sent to unsuspecting users around the world in the last ...

Forbes Technology Group: Training Your Employees Ranks #2 In Preventing Ransomware Attacks

Forbes wrote a great article about protecting your organization against ransomware. Despite all the funds spent on state-of-the-art security software, the bad guys are always just one ...

Ransomware Can Destroy Backups In Four Ways

I just found a very interesting blog post by Jerome Wendt, President & Lead Analyst of DCIG, Inc., an independent storage analyst and consulting firm.

Companies Slow to Adopt Insurance As Hedge Against Ransomware Wave

Research firm Ovum for Silicon Valley analytics firm FICO, conducted a May 2017, survey about cyber insurance. And here is the head-scratcher: “The survey further concluded that “a full ...

[ALERT] The IRS Issued An Urgent Warning Against An IRS / FBI-Themed Ransomware Phishing Attack

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2017 — The Internal Revenue Service warned people to avoid a new phishing scheme that impersonates the IRS and the FBI as part of a ransomware scam to take computer ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So, here is something new...

Business Braces for More Ransomware Assaults

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

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 ...


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