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Ransomware groups are increasingly switching to remote encryption in their attacks, marking a new escalation in tactics adopted by financially motivated actors to ensure the success of their campaigns. “Companies can have thousands of computers connected to their network, and with remote ransomware, all it takes is one underprotected device to compromise the entire network,” […]
A new spam wave posing as emailed fax messages is delivering a malware downloader that fetches and installs a ransomware family known as PClock, a CryptoLocker clone. The ransomware, detected by Microsoft as Ransom:Win32/WinPlock.B or WinPlock, is more commonly referred to under the name of PClock and has been going around since January 2015, when […]
As the uptake of SSL grows, Tim Blombery, systems engineer at A10 Networks, said threat actors are increasingly leveraging SSL-based encryption to hide malicious activity. As usage of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) moves beyond the login page or banking website and out into the wider web, Tim Blombery, Systems Engineer at security firm A10 Networks, […]
The Internet is a great place to do business and cybercriminals are aware of that fact so how can you protect your networks, systems and communications from cyber threats like ransomware? Let’s talk about that! Symantec’s newest threat report claims that email phishing scams have substantially declined in the last three years, but incidences where crypto-ransomware was used to encrypt […]
Cyber cooks breached the security of British parliament’s secure network and hacked into many of its computer systems. The hack allowed the hackers to leak several confidential documents in relation to MP for NewCastle upon Tyne Central, Chi Onwurah and her employees. This is one of the first successful attacks on the parliament’s secure network […]
A new ransomware email campaign detected in the fake email messages sent by either PostNord or Post Denmark, identified as Cryptolocker2. Hackers are targeting the Denish citizens with ransomware using a traditional method, which is by sending them an email message falsified to be delivered by Danish post office informing them that their package was […]
A UK man has been charged this week with a non-custodial sentence, after a ransomware infection on his computer made him confess to police. The man’s computer housed hundreds of animal porn images, quoted by court as dangerous and disgusting. Local news report declares that, Scotland resident 61-year-old Victor Anthony Noble, who lived in the […]
To demonstrate their creativity cybercriminals have released a new ransomware equipped with file encryption abilities and this time they have chosen logo of “Los Pollos Hermanos” fast food chain featured in famous TV show “Breaking Bad.” No matter how much we condemn cybercriminals for their deeds we cannot deny that they have been demonstrating their […]