Ransomware Roundup 2/15/2016
The bad guys have been awfully busy these last few days. Here is your ransomware roundup with the latest "new features".
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Keeping you updated on the latest ransomware attack vectors, strains, decryptors, families and trends to help you avoid becoming infected.
The bad guys have been awfully busy these last few days. Here is your ransomware roundup with the latest "new features".
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
OK, Heads Up! This has not hit U.S. shores yet, but it's just a matter of time. This nasty bit of crimeware is being beta-tested in Germany at the moment, and that is where the reports ...
Lawrence Abrams from the famous bleepingcomputer site wrote at Spiceworks: "CryptoWall 4.0 has been released that displays a redesigned ransom note, new filenames, and now encrypts a ...
A brand new report from Cyber Threat Alliance showed the staggering damage caused by a single criminal Eastern European cyber mafia. The CTA is an industry group with big-name members ...
In-brief: The nation’s top law enforcement agency is warning companies that they may not be able to get their data back from cyber criminals who use Cryptolocker, Cryptowall and other ...
Larry Abrams at tech blog Bleeping Computer was the first one to report on this new wrinkle. The ransomware is called LowLevel04 and encrypts data using RSA-2048 encryption, the ransom is ...
Good news for a change. Cisco just posted that they disabled a cybercrime operation that used the Angler exploit kit to distribute ransomware. The takedown shutttered a global ransomware ...
The criminal gangs that live off ransomware infections are targeting Small Medium Business (SMB) instead of consumers, a new Trend Micro Analysis shows. The reason SMB is being targeted ...
The Miami County Communication Center’s administrative computer network system was compromised with a CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware infection which locked down their 911 emergency center. ...
Cybercrime has not given up on ransomware just yet. In fact, it's expanding as different Eastern European mafias are competing with each other for market share in this segment. Here are ...
