Ransomware will not go away but to keep it under some type of restraint, law enforcement and government have to take dramatic action: Russia’s Ransomware Gangs Are Being Named and Shamed | WIRED UK Is time for you to have a look at my ongoing ransomware advice series? The Ransomware …
So, what has ransomware done this week?
There are always ransomware stories in the technical press – and even one of two that get into the mainstream press, but of course for all of these headliners, smaller companies and micro-businesses get hit by ransomware but do not make the news. That could be you! BlackCat ransomware claims …
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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Ransomware highlights from Bleeping Computers
There are a rush of ransomware stories on Bleeping computers, mainly high profile organisations being hit, not only with crypto-malware but being blackmailed over data exfiltrated by the threat actors. Automotive supplier breached by 3 ransomware gangs in 2 weeks (bleepingcomputer.com) Hacker uses new RAT malware in Cuba Ransomware attacks …
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Cyber attacks on governments large and small
Only months after the Albanian government opened its online portal, National Agency of the Information Society (AKSHI), it has has to be closed, along with other government websites due to a sustained cyber attack (I will avoid the word “sophisticated” they used in their press release). Investigations are ongoing as …
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