Various departments of the US Government have issued a joint advisory about MedusaLocker ransomware as part of their #stopransomware initiative. #StopRansomware: MedusaLocker | CISA Knowledge of circulating ransomware malware helps all organisations and individuals respond to the threats, when organisations that have been compromised, delay reporting the attacks or even …
Now the ransomware gangs are offering bug bounties
It is an accepted practice for software vendors to offer a bug bounty to people who discover a flaw in their software, and report it to them. The vendor can then, hopefully, fix the vulnerability before a threat actor can exploit it. Now the ransomware gangs are at it – …
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Now it is Son of Conti
I think it is true to say no one is sure what is happening to the Conti cyber criminal gang – other than, following the leak of it’s information earlier in the year, it has fractured. Son of Conti: Ransomware tries its hand at politics – The Record by Recorded …
Has the Conti Ransomware Gang finally stopped operating?
Research and analysis is showing that the malicious websites run by the Conti Gang to support it’s ransomware operations are now closed: Conti ransomware finally shuts down data leak, negotiation sites (bleepingcomputer.com) However the threat actors have not gone away – ransomware makes too much money for them to simply …
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From the Octagon Technology blog: Kamila on what you need to do about the threat of ransomware
Here is a non-technical article from our General Manager looking at the impact of ransomware on organisations. Who pays, how much time and money is lost, who goes bust and who has a plan in place to deal with it?
