By Jai Vijayan – The surge in ransomware attacks on cities, municipalities, schools, and healthcare organizations this year is just a foretaste of what is likely come in 2020. Threat actors have sensed a very real opportunity to make big … Continue reading →
As if the scourge of ransomware wasn’t bad enough already: Several prominent purveyors of ransomware have signaled they plan to start publishing data stolen from victims who refuse to pay up. To make matters worse, one ransomware gang has now … Continue reading →
By Mark Jones – It doesn’t matter if you’re working on a home computer with lots of sensitive documents and family photos, or if you’re a small business owner with years of client files and tax records. You’re likely storing … Continue reading →
By Catalin Cimpanu – ConnectWise, a Florida-based company that provides remote IT management solutions, is warning customers that hackers are targeting its software to gain access to client networks and install ransomware. ConnectWise Automate is a software package that lets IT … Continue reading →
The number of ransomware attacks on enterprises is up 500% from this time last year. Threat actors are becoming increasingly sophisticated and targeted. Ransomware is a business, and these actors want to get paid. Researcher Madeline Cyr interviewed me to … Continue reading →
By Zack Whittaker – Shipping tech giant Pitney Bowes has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems. The company said in a statement that its systems were hit by a “malware attack that encrypted information” on its systems, more commonly known as ransomware. “At this … Continue reading →
MSPs have been on the receiving end of relentless ransomware attacks in 2019. In June, hackers infiltrated a number of MSPs via their Webroot management consoles. What followed was an all-out assault on MSPs and MSP client systems, with ransomware halting businesses, … Continue reading →
By Lawrence Abrams – As we creep towards the end of the summer, things have started to thankfully slow down a bit. While there are still plenty of ransomware attacks going around, the amount we had seen last month against schools, … Continue reading →
By Luke Leal – Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen an increase in Troldesh ransomware using compromised websites as intermediary malware distributors. The malware often uses a PHP file that acts as a delivery tool for downloading the host malware dropper: … Continue reading →
Most ransomware that we’ve seen is usually deployed via some sort of phishing attack. The victim gets an email, they click on an attachment or a link, the ransomware gets loaded, and from there it starts spreading through the network, … Continue reading →