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2017 was the Year of the Ransomware when WannaCry and its derivatives wreaked havoc to various computer installations with SMBv1 vulnerabilities. The encrypted user data that WannaCry cost the world an estimated $4 billion worth of ransom payments in Bitcoin that went to the packets of its authors. Fast forward today, in 2019, ransomware is […]
FBI and DHS issued a joint alert on how to handle the SamSam ransomware attacks that targeted multiple industries. The SamSam ransomware is highly active in 2018, it breaks down 67 different types of organization network across the world especially in the U.S. Every time it evolves with improved sophisticated capabilities and carefully selected specific […]
Two Iranian Men charges for Sophisticated SamSam Ransomware deployment on various public sectors, Hospitals, Municipalities that caused $30 million damages and huge amount of sensitive data lose. Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34, and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri, 27 who residing in Iran were involved the deployment of the SamSam ransomware for almost 34-months. SamSam Ransomware is […]
SamSam ransomware campaigns continue to launch attacks against various organizations sectors including Government, Healthcare and Industrial control sectors. Unlike other Ransomware, SamSam trying to exploiting the critical vulnerabilities in the target organization network instead of using wide spreading Spam approach to compromise the target that used by other ransomware families. The SamSam ransomware group behind […]
A new version of the SamSam Ransomware Attack targeting the specific victims that selected by the Malware author and it contains a variety of unique future unlike other ransomware and it evades the detection using more sophisticated techniques. It makes very harder to detect and track back after launching its attack since it employees the more advanced […]
SamSam Ransomware newly evolved with improved sophisticated capabilities and carefully selected the specific organizations such as hospitals, schools, and government sectors those who most likely to pay the ransom amount to get their data back. Unlike other Ransomware, SamSam trying to exploiting the critical vulnerabilities in target organization network instead of using wide spreading Spam […]
SamSam Ransomware campaign evolution continues and this time a new variant but there is no difference in the encryption mechanism when compared to old variants. With the new variant some string obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques added to make detection difficult. The SamSam ransomware campaign targetting multiple industries including Government, Healthcare, ICS and also the individuals […]
The FBI issued a confidential urgent “Flash” message to the businesses and organizations about the Samsam Ransomware, why it is so dangerous? It is emergency, every week security experts launch an alert on a new ransomware, the extortion practice is becoming a profitable business for criminal gangs worldwide. Recently the US and Canada issued a joint warning about the recent […]