I have not been writing quite as much about ransomware recently, but it does not mean it has gone away. I have a new article here on Octagon Technology looking at the “must have” ransomware accessory! Ransomware – Part 1
Practice Drinking Coffee* better known as Planning and Preparation
Sorry, this is not a coffee* appreciation article it is an article about planning and preparation for an incident. Planning and Preparation = Good Governance Businesses and organisations need a cyber security policy and a plan covering what they do to mitigate the risk of an incident and what they …
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International Co-operation to Disrupt Ransomware
Ransomware will not go away – threat actors make too much money and steal too much valuable information using it. Now 36 nations and the EU member states have created a five department coalition of expertise to disrupt and combat ransomware. The International Counter Ransomware Task Force’s (ICRTF) operations cover: …
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A ray of hope if you are hit with BanLian ransomware
If you do get infected with BanLian ransomware Avast may have a quicker answer for you, rather than using your ransomware resilient back-up – a free decryptor: Beating BanLian ransomware with decryption • The Register Obviously the are caveats, you have to be infected with the exact strain of ransomware …
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Ransomware is never far from the news
Threat actors have been taking advantage of an exploited set of Microsoft credentials to embed ransomware attacks into signed drivers: Microsoft-signed malicious Windows drivers used in ransomware attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) And LockBit got through the cyber security defences of California’s Department of Finance: LockBit claims attack on California’s Department of Finance …