Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
In the first part of this article on how ransomware has changed, we looked at the actual attacks, today we are going to look at ransomware payments. Ransomware. Pay up? In the early days of ransomware, paying for the decryption key was an option. Although back then most people who …
Ransomware is probably the most well known of the modern cyber security threats, regularly making the mainstream press when high profile organisations and/or large numbers of users are compromised by the actions of cyber-criminals (BBC News, 2025). When ransomware began… I can remember the first time we had to deal …
Once ransomware gets into an organisation, usually through some type of phishing attack, that organisation will have a problem that will cost it money and will damage its reputation. So, anything that makes it easier for ransomware attacks to flourish and increase has to be bad news for every organisation …
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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a report looking at the increase in commercial cyber tools and services. The threat from commercial cyber proliferation – NCSC.GOV.UK It looks at how easy it is now for relatively low skilled threat actors to access sophisticated malware and deploy these attack …
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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