Dropbox has admitted that 130 of its confidential private GitHub repositories were coped by a threat actor. Among the haul were secret APUI codes. They do reassure users that no user content, usernames or passwords were stolen. Well of course not. That is not the issue. Why bother stealing those …
Ransomware targets home users – with some advice for you – UPDATED
This post was first made on 14 October 2022 Original Post Threat actors do not care who they infect as long as they pay up. Now fake anti-virus and security updates for Windows 10 have been circulating and deploying Magniber ransomware – the zip files contain JavaScript that initiates the …
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Omphaloskepsis?
This is what cyber security can become. Not sure what it means? It means navel gazing – thinking about one thing to the exclusion of the wider picture. So what am I talking about? You have been sold anti-virus and a firewall, you’ve set the updates to automatic and have …
Fighting back against ransomware – publishing a decryptor
Bitdefender, in conjunction with Europol, the Zürich Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Zürich Cantonal Police and the NoMoreRansom Project, has created a decryptor for the LockerGoga ransomware. Bitdefender, Europol, Swiss police publish decryptor for LockerGoga ransomware – The Record by Recorded Future This will help you is you are infected with …
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Just when you thought I had forgotten about ransomware
It is not possible to forget ransomware, just this week our engineers have updated a client’s back-up to one that is ransomware compliant – meaning, among other things, that the threat actors cannot access and so encrypt or alter the back-up during their attacks. Up to this point the client …
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