Keeping you updated on the latest ransomware attack vectors, strains, decryptors, families and trends to help you avoid becoming infected.
Comodo Threat Research Labs just posted an alert that a massive campaign of phishing emails have been sent with a spoofed "from" address: auto-shipping@amazon.com. The subject is “Your ...
Excuse my French, but Holy S#!+, some ransomware developers have created a new evil way to monetize their operations by adding a DDoS component to their malicious payloads. Security ...
Larry Abrams from the Bleepingcomputer site noted: "In a surprising end to TeslaCrypt, the developers shut down their ransomware and released the master decryption key. Over the past few ...
That's what Larry Abrams from Bleepingcomputer started out with yesterday, and he was right! We have had six new ransomware strains, one new RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) and one major ...
An interesting Q1-16 threat report. Every day, they analyze more than 1 billion email messages, hundreds of millions of social media posts, and more than 150 million malware samples. ...
A new twist on the Petya ransomware and how it now uses a backup ransomware attack. Remember, Petya is a new type of ransomware that doesn’t encrypt specific files but makes the entire ...
In an email provided to TechCrunch, the House technology service desk warned representatives of increased ransomware attacks on the House network. The email warns that attackers are ...
If you've been in the IT trenches over the past year, you've probably noticed the announcements of new strains of ransomware are accelerating. The research team just published a blog post ...
Now here's a new hybrid nasty that does a multitude of nefarious things. Researchers found that it was built by the same cyber mafia that's behind the Reveton malware. A few months ago ...
Ransomware attacks cause downtime, data loss, possible intellectual property theft, and in certain industries a ransomware attack is now looked at as a possible data breach. Ransomware is ...
A mysterious update in the behavior of the CTB-Locker ransomware strain alerted security researchers to pull some strings and see what was going on. The CTB-Locker ransomware family, ...
CNN Money reports about new estimates from the FBI that show the costs of ransomware have reached an all-time high this year. Threat actors made $209 million in the first quarter of 2016 ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. A few days ago our friends at BleepingComputer.com announced the discovery of a new form of ransomware, which they dubbed Jigsaw ...
Pinellas County resident Scott Germak thought he was getting free Tampa Bay Rays tickets based on a phishing email that appeared to be a legitimate message coming from GTE Financial, his ...
Cisco's Talos Labs researchers had a look into the future and described how ransomware would evolve. It's a nightmare. They created a sophisticated framework for next-gen ransomware that ...
A new ransomware strain called CryptoHost was discovered, which claims that it encrypts your data and then demands a ransom of .33 bitcoins to get your files back (~140 USD at the current ...
It's happening in the UK today, and you can expect it in America tomorrow [correction- it's already happening today]. The bad guys in Eastern Europe are often using the U.K. as their beta ...
[UPDATE April 10, 2016] Petya's ransomware's encryption has been defeated and a password generator has been released. See bottom of the post. March 25, news came out about a new type of ...
It is now confirmed, The MedStar Hospital Chain was hit with ransomware and has received a digital ransom note. A Baltimore Sun reporter has seen a copy of the cybercriminal's demands. ...
Phishing attacks usually have a payload of infected attachments. With the recent ransomware attacks on hospitals I was asked for a press quote and the word "Attackment" suddenly came into ...
