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, ...

This Ransomware Targets HR Departments With Fake Job Applications

Jun 10, 2017 2:51:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

I missed this one a few months ago, but it's a great example how focused the bad guys are getting with their attacks, and you need to watch out for this social engineering attack vector ...

Windows 10 Stops Ransomware Cold... Or Does It?

Jun 10, 2017 10:54:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

OK, finally there is some good news in the fight against ransomware!

Have We Reached "Peak Ransomware"?

Jun 3, 2017 11:34:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There was an article with the title: "Don’t panic: We’ve reached ‘peak ransomware’" in a publication called The Memo. They decided to ask an expert: Rik Ferguson, VP of security research ...

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 ...

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