Keeping you updated on the latest ransomware attack vectors, strains, decryptors, families and trends to help you avoid becoming infected.
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 ...
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” ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recently, Microsoft claimed that no known ransomware could penetrate the new Win10 Creators Update.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
OK, finally there is some good news in the fight against ransomware!
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 ...
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'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
