Scam Of The Week: IRS Refund Ransomware

Apr 19, 2015 12:44:44 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

New TeslaCrypt Ransomware Uses More Exploit Kits As Infection Vector

Apr 17, 2015 2:07:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Ransomware Infects 30-PC network of health care company

Apr 13, 2015 5:08:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In this Wednesday, April 1, 2015 photo, Jeff Salter, CEO of Caring Senior Service, poses for a photo in his company office building in San Antonio. Last December, the network of nearly 30 ...

Wall Street Journal Video About Ransomware and Botnets

Apr 13, 2015 2:56:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wall Street Journal Video About Ransomware and Botnets The WSJ asked itself: Who Will Cybercriminals Target Next? (click on the picture to see the video at the WSJ website). ...

New Ransomware CrypVault Makes Files Look Like They Are Quarantined

Apr 8, 2015 11:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New Ransomware CrypVault Evades AV With Simple Batch Scripts A new ransomware strain dubbed CRYPVAULT by Trend Micro is being spread as an email attachment. It's currently focusing on ...

Police Pay Ransom After Ransomware Phishing Attack

Apr 6, 2015 11:09:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

TEWKSBURY – Last December Tewksbury Police confronted a new, and growing, frontier in cyberterrorism when the CryptoLocker ransomware virus infected the department’s network, encrypting ...

ALERT: New Ransomware Spearphish Uses One-Click Dropbox Attack

Mar 30, 2015 8:47:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The cyber-mafia is stepping up the pressure. As you know, there are several competing gangs that are furiously innovating in an attempt to grab as much money as possible. Call it a ...

Security experts say law firms are perfect targets for hackers

Mar 19, 2015 4:38:30 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Susan Hansen at Bloomberg business reported that cyber attacks upend the attorney-client privilege.

Ransomware: Pay Up Or Fight. What Would You Do?

Mar 17, 2015 5:23:22 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ask security experts what to do when hit with ransomware -- the sophisticated malware that infects a device or network, uses military-grade encryption to restrict access, and demands ...

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #11 Ransomware: Pay Up Or Fight. What Would You Do?

Mar 17, 2015 9:26:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware: Pay Up Or Fight. What Would You Do? Ask security experts what to do when hit with ransomware -- the sophisticated malware that infects a device or network, uses military-grade ...

New Ransomware CryptoFortress Encrypts Unmapped Network Shares

Mar 7, 2015 11:32:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Used to be that ransomware only looked at hard drive C:, and then any other mapped drives like D:, E:, F: etc., but now a whole new malicious strain that has stolen the same look & ...

New CryptoWall Attack Uses Malicious Help File Attachments

Mar 6, 2015 2:42:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new CryptoWall attack wave has hit end-users with phishing emails containing malicious .chm attachments that infect networks with the latest and most sophisticated file-encrypting ...

Anatomy of a ransomware attack [Infographic]

Mar 4, 2015 11:21:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

How does ransomware actually work? Ransomware attacks cause downtime, data loss, possible intellectual property theft, and in certain industries a ransomware attack is considered a data ...

Ransomware We Have Not Seen The Worst Yet

Feb 11, 2015 4:11:58 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The massive success of CryptoLocker starting September 2013 has spawned a number of rapidly growing ransomware families. More recent versions of this malware have learned a number of ...

Brand new ransomware strain encrypts files from memory

Feb 6, 2015 2:37:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security researchers at venture-backed Fairfax, Virginia-based Invincea have discovered a new Russian ransomware strain they called "Fessleak" which delivers its malicious code straight ...

Fake Chrome Update Phishing Email Installs Ransomware

Feb 2, 2015 4:48:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Jerome Segura at MalwareBytes was the first to report about a phishing attack that uses a fake "Chrome Update" to trick end-users into installing ransomware on their workstation. So, I ...

RansomWeb: Cyber Criminals Hold Whole Website Hostage

Jan 28, 2015 4:41:27 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Now this is a whole new wrinkle in criminal ransomware. Malicious hacker crews have started taking over whole websites, injecting some code to file-by-file first encrypt and then decrypt ...

FBI Alert: Ransomware Infection Leads To Wire Transfer Fraud

Jan 24, 2015 4:05:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

OK, Heads-up! Here is the deal. The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) two days ago warned about a new version of a man-in-the-middle scam that targets your CEO, CTO, CFO, ...

CryptoWall 2.1 First Multiplatform Ransomware?

Jan 11, 2015 11:15:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a new version of CryptoWall out in the wild that I have dubbed "Version 2.1" because it has some powerful new features. Researchers at Cisco's Talos group published an analysis ...

Ransomware on CBS This Morning

Jan 9, 2015 10:40:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

January 9, 2015 - CBS This Morning News ran an item about ransomware featuring Shawn Henry, former FBI executive assistant director and president of cyber security firm CrowdStrike ...

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