The trusted anti-virus and cyber security company Sophos is being impersonated by a threat actor, who have taken the name SophosEncrypt.
Cybersecurity firm Sophos impersonated by new SophosEncrypt ransomware (bleepingcomputer.com)
Their aim to get their ransomware onto your computers.
Two takeaways from this:
If the offer looks too good to be true – then it is probably a scam.
Get your critical business hardware and software from trusted suppliers or an MSP such as us. Googling “cheapest” is not the way to go.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles