Scam Of The Week: Tech Support Exploits WannaCry Ransomware Fears

May 29, 2017 9:53:10 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We all know about the infamous WannaCry ransomworm which caused a worldwide 1 billion dollars in damage, targeting mainly un-patched Windows 7 machines. As expected, the bad guys are now ...

Symantec: "Email Becomes the Weapon of Choice"

May 29, 2017 8:37:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Symantec's 2017 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) details how simple tactics and innovative cyber criminals led to unprecedented outcomes in global threat activity. This report ...

[Heads-Up] Cyber Insurance Does Not Pay Out For Human Error

May 29, 2017 7:57:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The WanaCry ransomworm has caused insurance companies really to take notice. Customers have started to file damage claims, it is a bit early however to see the insurance industry's full ...

Exclusive: North Korea's Unit 180, the cyber warfare cell that worries the West

May 21, 2017 12:18:54 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ju-min Park and James Pearson from Reuters wrote a remarkable piece that you need to know about. They wrote: "North Korea's main spy agency has a special cell called Unit 180 that is ...

WanaCry Ransomware Was Not The First To Use NSA's ETERNALBLUE

May 18, 2017 7:25:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

April 14th this year, The Shadow Brokers released a stolen zoo of NSA hacking tools. One of these was ETERNALBLUE, a Windows exploit using an outdated Microsoft network communications ...

Shadow Brokers Offer New SaaS 0-Day Threat Subscription Model

May 16, 2017 4:13:15 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The mysterious Shadow Brokers – the hackers who leaked the NSA SMB zero-day exploit that powered WanaCry into the world's worst ransomworm – are back, and could cause even more damage. In ...

Are The North Koreans Behind WanaCry Ransomware?

May 16, 2017 6:00:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A North Korean hacking group is suspected to be behind WanaCry. Symantec and Kaspersky malware labs are investigating technical evidence that possibly suggests the North’s involvement, ...

Telefonica Victim Of $600,000 Bitcoin Ransomware Attack

May 12, 2017 4:51:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica was confronted with 85 percent of their systems shut down after ransomware criminals infiltrated its systems demanding $550,000 in Bitcoin. Telefonica is ...

WannaCry Ransomware Attack Uses NSA 0-Day Exploits To Go On Worldwide Rampage

May 12, 2017 2:21:44 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware Scum Decide What You Have To Pay By Reading The Economist

May 5, 2017 5:46:16 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Russian organized cybercrime now has a surprising method of determining how much to ask for – the Big Mac index from The Economist. Security firm Recorded Future blogged that in March, a ...

Ransomware Causes 90-day Downtime And 700K Damages For Law Firm

May 3, 2017 7:33:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Cybercriminals held a Providence law firm hostage for months by encrypting its files and demanding $25,000 in ransom paid in Bitcoin to restore access, according to a ...

America Ponies Up: Ransomware Payments Rise To $1,077 Per Infection

Apr 29, 2017 9:54:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

America was the victim of 34 percent of global ransomware infections in 2016. The "why" is clear; a whopping 64 percent of Americans are willing to pay to get their files back, as opposed ...

100+ Free Ransomware Decryption Tools

Apr 28, 2017 2:16:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The threat of ransomware has never been more real. In fact, 2016 was a record year. Here are some scary statistics from the past year put together by the folks at Barkly: Nearly 50 ...

Newark City Hall Computers Infected With Ransomware

Apr 25, 2017 11:45:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — . The City of Newark’s computer system has been disabled by hackers demanding thousands in ransom money, according to a published report. Hackers are demanding ...

And Just When You Thought Locky Ransomware Had Disappeared...

Apr 22, 2017 9:47:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Locky ransomware reappeared with a vengeance Friday, this time not using Office documents combined with social engineering to have the user enable macros, but with a PDF that has a Word ...

Why Cerber Is The New King Of Ransomware

Apr 15, 2017 11:23:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

During 2016, ransomware exploded. It clearly became the biggest menace on the net, using phishing as it's No.1 infection vector. Hundreds of ransomware strains competed for market ...

New Cerber Ransomware Starts Evading Machine Learning

Apr 2, 2017 7:59:56 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new version of the Cerber ransomware family has adopted new techniques to make itself harder to detect by endpoint security software that uses machine learning for detection. It is now ...

Gigabyte Firmware Flaws Allow the Installation of Ransomware

Apr 1, 2017 3:12:15 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Now, here is an interesting one. Gigabyte BRIX are very small computers, similar to Intel NUCs, that can be used to replace those bulky desktop towers. I am using Intel NUCs myself at the ...

Samas Ransomware Deletes Veeam Backups, And Maybe Yours Too...

Apr 1, 2017 10:15:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This month, a user on the Atlanta-based 500 million-dollar backup company Veeam community forums reported that they were hit with Samas ransomware. I am giving you the short version here: ...

Ransomware Is Skyrocketing, But Where Are All The Breach Reports?

Mar 25, 2017 3:58:10 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than 4,000 ransomware attacks occur daily and healthcare is the largest target. However, despite disclosure requirements and the risk of late or no HIPAA notification at all, breach ...

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