The police forces from seven nations, with Europol and Eurojust have broken up and arrested members of a ransomware gang that has been attributed with cyber-attacks in 71 countries. Police dismantle ransomware group behind attacks in 71 countries (bleepingcomputer.com) The operation based primarily in Ukraine with assistance for investigators from …
Yet another way for ransomware gangs to extort you
I have written about three of the ways ransomware hackers can extort you in my Ransomware Primer Mini-Series: Now the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang has come up with yet another method to get organisations to pay their ransoms. In the US there is a legal obligation for publicly traded companies to …
Continue reading “Yet another way for ransomware gangs to extort you”
End the week with ransomware or start the week with ransomware…
…it is all the same. In case you have been under a stone forever, ransomware is probably one of the most circulated bits of malware out there and if you get hit with it there will be serious consequences for your organisation. It doesn’t matter whether you were the deliberate …
Continue reading “End the week with ransomware or start the week with ransomware…”
Let’s finish the week with ransomware
Do you have a ransomware plan? If not here is a thought… I am sure the world’s largest commercial bank had/has a ransomware, incident response and business continuity plan – and they need it: World’s largest commercial bank ICBC confirms ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com) I am also sure they had plenty …
Denial of Service attacks
Denial of Service attacks (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not something many of our clients have to worry about directly. However our clients are often impacted when services they rely on come under attack. OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages (bleepingcomputer.com) This attack probably …