The Ware Report’s recommendations still important as proven by ransomware and breaches. The National Security Archives at George Washington University has just added a classic text of computer security to itsRead More →
An individual going by the twitter handle leostone was able to create an algorithm that can generate the password used to decrypt a Petya encrypted computer. In my test this, this algorithm was ableRead More →
Crypto-ransomware has turned every network intrusion into a potential payday. There’s something inherently world-changing about the latest round of crypto-ransomware that has been hitting a wide range of organizations over theRead More →
A threat actor named TA530 group, has been targeting executives in an attempt to infect their machine with various malware, including ransomware. Ransomware continues to represent one of the greatestRead More →
Petya is different from the other popular ransomware these days. Instead of encrypting files one by one, it denies access to the full system by attacking low-level structures on theRead More →
Android.Lockdroid ransomware expands to Asia by targeting Japan first. The malware poses as a system update and locks the device from use. One of the most prevalent Android ransomware threats inRead More →
The Carbon Black Threat Research Team has recently discovered a new family of ransomware, which they dubbed “PowerWare,” that targets organizations via Microsoft Word and PowerShell. PowerShell is the scriptingRead More →
The IT systems of three US hospitals have been infected with ransomware, which encrypts vital files and demands money to unlock them. The systems, at Kentucky Methodist Hospital, Chino ValleyRead More →
Ransomware attacks have made a lot of headlines in the past year with several high-profile cases, including that of the Hospital in Los Angeles which had its data encrypted and endedRead More →
Another ransomware built on the EDA2 project. A new ransomware family was discovered in the past weeks, one that infects users’ computers via poorly secured TeamViewer installations and then encrypts allRead More →
