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Short Bytes: According to a report, a Chinese Android ransomware creation kit is being spread on hacking forums and Chinese social networking websites. The app doesn’t need any coding skills to generate a ransomware variant on the device itself. The hacker simply needs to make a one-time payment to be able to create unlimited variants. The readers […]
The threat of “Android ransomware” is on the rise, and cyber criminals are making millions of dollars, thus victimizing as many people as possible – with WannaCry, NotPetya, and LeakerLocker that put the ransomware at risk recently. What is bad? Hacker has also begun selling android ransomware kit-as-a-service (RAAS) in an effort to more easily […]
A Mamba Ransomware that was badly infected the San Francisco Train System On Nov 2016, now Mamba is again back to form that resumed its attack vector against Corporate Networks. A legitimate full disk encryption Utility called DiskCrypto used for this attack and uses the psexec utility to execute the Mamba Ransomware by the group […]
Cerber ransomware which gained popularity and evolved one of the fast growing ransomware families that infiltrate the system and encrypts various file types including .jpg, .doc, .raw, .avi, etc. It adds a .cerber extension to each encrypted file. Following successful infiltration, Cerber demands a ransom payment to decrypt these files. Also Read A complete Lookback […]
Short Bytes: UK-based hacker Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTech, has been arrested by the FBI. He was visiting the US to take part in the annual DefCon and Blackhat conference in Las Vegas. According to the reports, this arrest has been made due to his alleged involvement in the creation and spreading of banking trojan Kronos. Notably, Hutchins found WannaCry […]
Cybercriminals behind Wanna Cry Ransomware worldwide attack that have caused worldwide chaos have finally earned their ransom payments. Nearly three months ago, the Wanna Cry ransomware shut down hospitals, telecommunication providers, and many companies around the world, infecting hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries, encrypting files and uploading victims $ 300- […]
Short Bytes: A team of Italian security researchers has created a Windows filesystem add-on named ShieldFS to fight the ransomware attacks. By using techniques like shadowing and copy-on-write, ShieldFS makes sure that an attack is timely stopped and its backup is restored. In the tests, the add-on was able to detect the malware on 97% occasions. The […]
This without a doubt is the second largest health data breach caused by a ransomware attack. An Oaks, Philadelphia based women’s healthcare clinic ‘Women’s Health Care Group of PA’ (WHCGPA) was reportedly attacked with ransomware. On July 18, a security notice was posted by the clinic that revealed details about the attack. As per the […]
Greek police arrested a Russian national, Alexander Vinnik, 38, for his role as owner of the BTC-e Bitcoin trading platform. In the US, the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally indicted Vinnik on 21 charges related to money laundering and the operation of an unlicensed money exchange. According to several information sources, Vinnik and his platform […]
Over the weekend, Emsisoft security researcher xXToffeeXx discovered a new ransomware called Reyptson that is targeting Spanish victims. Since then, we have seen increased activity in the ransomware’s developmen. Today security researcher MalwareHunterTeam took a deeper look and noticed that Reyptson conducts its own spam distribution campaign directly from a victim’s configured Thunderbird email account. This is a new feature that has not been seen […]
Yesterday, Malwarebytes malware researcher Marcelo Rivero discovered a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware that is appending the .EXTE extension to encrypted file names. This article provides a brief summary of information related to this new variant. As we are always looking for weaknesses, if you are a victim of this variant and decide to pay the ransom, please send […]
Short Bytes: LeakerLocker, an Android ransomware, is here to infect the Android smartphones and threaten the users. This ransomware doesn’t use encryption while locking down your personal data and asks for ransom in return for the release of data. The malicious apps have been removed from Play Store and Google is investigating the issue. Meanwhile, […]
The master key of the original pocket version of ransomware has been unveiled by its creator, allowing infected Petya ransomware victims to recover their encrypted files without having to pay any ransom money. But wait, it’s not NotPetya it’s Petya. Do not confuse the Petya ransomware with the latest ransomware NotPetya destructive (also known as […]
The master key to the original version of the Petya ransomware – not to be confused with the latest and massive Petya/ExPetr outbreak that swept through the Ukraine and parts of Europe last month – has been released, allowing all the victims of previous Petya attacks to unscramble their encrypted files. According to researchers, the author of […]
An another Historical Petya Ransomware after wanna cry Chapter Finally come to an end. An author of Petya came out and released the Master Decryption Key to shut down the Petya Project. This Master Decryption Key help to all the Petya Ransomware Victims to get back their Encrypted Files. Released Master Decryption Key only work […]
Following the massive raid on Eastern Europe last week, researchers are reaching a consensus that the incident was cyber attack for political reasons. NATO wants to respond to Petya Ransomware Attack. According to CNBC, the NATO Cyber Defense Cooperation Center (CCD COE) recently issued a statement saying NATO wants to respond to Petya Ransomware Attack, the […]
A fourth ransomware campaign focused on Ukraine has surfaced today, following some of the patterns seen in past ransomware campaigns that have been aimed at the country, such as XData, PScrypt, and the infamous NotPetya. The ransomware was discovered today by a security researcher who goes online only by the name of MalwareHunter. The researcher says the ransomware got […]
Short Bytes: The notorious hacker, Janus, who was behind original Petya ransomware is out of the shadows, probably to let people know that he isn’t behind the 2017 Petya attack. He has also told that he’s taking a look at the code to find some crack. Notably, the new Petya malware is a data wiper […]
The NotPetya ransomware that encrypted and locked thousands of computers across the globe yesterday and today is, in reality, a disk wiper meant to sabotage and destroy computers, and not ransomware. This is the conclusion of two separate reports coming from Comae Technologies and Kaspersky Lab experts. Experts say that NotPetya — also known as […]
Short Bytes: A security researcher has found a fix for the latest Petya Ransomware attack. For now, you can vaccinate your system in seconds by creating a particular file. If Petya finds that file on the disk, it stops the encryption business. Please note that users need to create this file independently on each computer […]
Tuesday saw a second major cyberattack in as many months, affecting several countries and dozens of major companies — and that’s just the start. Some of the dust has settled throughout the day. Here’s what you need to know, now. 1. THE SAME ATTACK — BUT DIFFERENT If you thought this was similar to last […]