SURVEY: Even if You Don't Pay, Ransomware Attacks Are Very Expensive

Mar 19, 2016 11:37:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to a new survey by Intermedia called "2016 Crypto-Ransomware Report", ransomware attacks are increasingly targeting larger companies, costing them dearly. Employees are usually ...

TeslaCrypt Ransomware v3.01 Updated With Unique Keys For Each Victim

Mar 17, 2016 11:47:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

TeslaCrypt is a relatively new ransomware variant which has made it in the Top 5, and has rapidly innovated in its efforts to evade detection. The latest version which is one of the most ...

Ransomware Attacks Use NY Times, BBC, Other Media Sites

Mar 16, 2016 10:26:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Over the weekend, The NY Times, BBC, Newsweek, AOL, MSN, The HIll and other major news sites had their ad networks hijacked again by criminals using the Angler Exploit Kit to deliver ...

Inoculate Employees Against The Locky Ransomware

Mar 15, 2016 3:56:57 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 has immediately responded to Dridex's Locky ransomware attack by releasing a new attachment option which is called "MS Office document with Macro". This new option allows a ...

Deadly Dridex Cybercrime Gang Has Just Moved Into Ransomware

Mar 14, 2016 11:21:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

One thing that is driving mainstream recognition of ransomware is the move by the Dridex banking Trojan gang into ransomware with their Locky strain. They have taken over from CryptoWall, ...

The structure of Russia's exports in 2014, including ransomware

Mar 12, 2016 1:30:01 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Check the orange slice depicting the percentage of ransomware exports. I found this on someone's twitter feed and loved it!

Weird New Cerber Ransomware Speaks To Its Victims

Mar 6, 2016 9:42:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a new strain of ransomware called Cerber that takes creepiness to the next level. It drops three files on the victim's desktop named "# DECRYPT MY FILES #." These files contain ...

44% of ransomware victims in the UK have paid to recover their data

Feb 20, 2016 11:05:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Danielle Correa at SC Magazine wrote: "A Bitdefender global study with respondents from the UK, the US, France, Germany, Denmark and Romania was conducted by iSense Solutions to discover ...

It's Here. New Locky Ransomware Hidden In Infected Word Files

Feb 17, 2016 7:44:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[UPDATED FEB 22, 2016] It was only a matter of time, but some miscreant finally did it. There is a new ransomware strain somewhat amateurishly called "Locky", but this is professional ...

Ransomware Roundup 2/15/2016

Feb 15, 2016 8:00:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The bad guys have been awfully busy these last few days. Here is your ransomware roundup with the latest "new features".

Ransomware Criminals Infect Thousands With Weird WordPress Hack

Feb 6, 2016 11:00:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An unexpectedly large number of WordPress websites have been mysteriously compromised and are delivering the TeslaCrypt ransomware to unwitting end-users. Antivirus is not catching this ...

This Week's Ransomware Roundup

Jan 31, 2016 9:51:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

1) I was going to write up all the ransomware related news and then ran across this article by Senior Editor Sara Peters at Darkreading. Saves me some time! She started out with: ...

Alert: Stupid And Damaging New Ransomware Called 7ev3n

Jan 28, 2016 2:54:51 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Larry Abrams had the scoop: "A new ransomware has been spotted called 7ev3n that encrypts your data and demands 13 bitcoins to decrypt your files. A 13 bitcoin [almost $5,000] ransom ...

First Javascript-only Ransomware-as-a-Service Discovered

Jan 5, 2016 9:06:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercrime has piggybacked on the extremely successful SaaS model and several strains of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) like TOX, Fakben and Radamant have appeared in 2015. However, a new ...

Major TeslaCrypt Ransomware Offensive Underway

Dec 16, 2015 1:17:59 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This month, Symantec researchers reported a boost in TeslaCrypt attacks, going from 200 a day to 1,800. TeslaCrypt first appeared in March 2015, and differentiated itself because many of ...

Kaspersky Sees Ransomware Doubling Year Over Year

Dec 14, 2015 4:44:18 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Antivirus company Kaspersky has been monitoring ransomware pretty much from the get-go. Not surprising, as they are in Moscow and the main ransomware malware developers are Russian as ...

Cryptowall 4.0 Delivered via Nuclear Exploit Kit

Nov 27, 2015 10:13:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Earlier than expected - but similar to Cryptowall 3.0 - a few weeks after its release, Cryptowall 4.0 ransomware is now delivered via the Nuclear Exploit Kit, (NEK) according to the ...

Ransomware News Roundup November 2015

Nov 17, 2015 5:42:21 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

DecryptorMax 24-hour deadline Ransomware strains use different ways to pressure victims into paying, varying from 7 days after which the ransom doubles, to threatening to publish files on ...

Bitdefender Releases Cryptowall 4.0 Ransomware Vaccine

Nov 11, 2015 3:10:08 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Right after a new, badder version 4.0 of CryptoWall came out, Romanian security company Bitdefender has released a vaccine they claim will block ransomware infections. Andra Zaharia of ...

FFIEC warns of increased ransomware attacks

Nov 9, 2015 10:35:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware continues to be a source of worry and now U.S. regulatory agencies are getting in the fray. The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) published a statement ...

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