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

Scam Of The Week: Massive WebAd Poisoning

The same cybercrime lowlifes that infected the Yahoo website a few weeks ago have struck again, this time infecting sites like Drudge Report and Weather.com. Both sites have hundreds of ...
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Scam Of The Week: Microsoft Windows 10 Upgrade Installs Ransomware.

Major Operating System upgrades are usually a cause of confusion among end-users and the current Windows 10 upgrade is no exception. The bad guys exploit these confusions in several ways, ...
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New TeslaCrypt's Shrewd Disguise as CryptoWall

Security researcher Fedor Sinitsyn reported on the new TeslaCrypt V2.0. This family of ransomware is relatively new, it was first detected in February 2015. It's been dubbed the "curse" ...
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A New, Innovative Ransomware Attack Spreads Using Google Drive

An Eastern European cybercrime gang has started a new TorrentLocker ransomware campaign where whole websites of energy companies, government organizations and large enterprises are being ...
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Patch Flash NOW Or Get Infected With CryptoWall

It is now urgent to patch any Adobe Flash Player machines in your network. Why? There is an exploit kit called Magnitude that now uses a recently patched Flash zero-day vulnerability. An ...
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FBI Alert: Latest CryptoWall Ransomware Damage More Than $18 Million

The latest version 3.0 of CryptoWall, descendant of the infamous CryptoLocker, is the most advanced and most damaging ransomware in the wild at the moment, specifically targeting U.S. ...
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Ransomware Resume Phishing Security Test Gets Monster Open Rate

Now here is a real IT Horror Story. A brand new KnowBe4 customer which had not yet trained their employees decided to test their staff with one of the new templates we had just released.
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Ransomware Gives Cyber Criminals Almost 1,500% Return On Their Money

A new report by Trustwave shows some stunning numbers. You would almost come to the conclusion you are in the wrong business. They looked at how much of an investment a cybercriminal ...
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Annoying New Ransomware Attack Uses Girl Resumes

The SANS InfoSec Forums noted that since Monday May 25th a new version of CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware started, using both malicious spam and the Angler exploit kit (EK). The attack wave has ...
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Ransomware Victim Gets Discount From Cybercriminal

Researchers at Check Point discovered a new Russian ransomware strain that allows the victim to communicate with the cybercriminals who are open to providing discounts to decrypt the ...
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Are there free ransomware decryption tools?

JP Buntix wrote: "Two types of ransomware making headlines all across the world in recent months are called CryptoLocker and CoinVault. Both types of ransomware operate in the same way, ...
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It's heeere! Criminal Ransomware as a Service

As we predicted in our whitepaper "Your Money or Your Life/Files", there is now shake-and-bake criminal ransomware that aspiring Internet criminals can put together in a few minutes. Meet ...
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Is Your Network Infected With Sleeper Ransomware?

This is a concerning new "sleeper" ransomware twist.
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Researchers Observe SVG Files Being Used To Distribute Ransomware

Researchers with AppRiver have observed attackers sending out phishing emails with SVG files attached – these files, when downloaded and executed, open up websites that download what ...
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Heads-up: 'Breaking Bad' Ransomware Beta Tested Down Under

You can expect ransomware in America in the next few weeks which has a Breaking Bad theme. Take this a bit further and we can expect ransomware with Halloween themes later this year. ...
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Credit Union Times: Ransomware, WordPress Threats Grow

At 27%, banks and credit unions are the largest segment of KnowBe4's customers, obviously because they are the bad guys' #1 target. Thing is, banks and credit unions found us, we did not ...
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New Multi-Language Ransomware Crypt0l0cker

Ransomware is being localized for large Asian countries now. There is an ongoing attack targeting Korea, followed by Malaysia and then Japan. If you have business partners or subsidiaries ...
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Ransomware Mafia Now Uses Bitcoin As Obfuscation Layer

Bitcoin is a very speculative currency, still relatively easy to manipulate compared to the major currencies, and subject to massive increases and drops in value. Currently the falling ...
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Scam Of The Week: IRS Refund Ransomware

Many of us waited till the last moment before the April 15 tax deadline and are now holding our collective breath in expectation of that possibly rewarding refund. The problem is that ...
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New TeslaCrypt Ransomware Uses More Exploit Kits As Infection Vector

The new Internet Security Threat report from Symantec shows that the growth of file-encrypting ransomware expanded from 8,274 in 2013 to 373,342 in 2014. This is 45 times more ...
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