{"id":31830,"date":"2019-08-23T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=31830"},"modified":"2019-08-23T03:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T07:02:00","slug":"the-week-in-ransomware-august-9th-2019-summer-doldrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/23\/the-week-in-ransomware-august-9th-2019-summer-doldrums\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Ransomware &#8211; August 9th 2019 &#8211; Summer Doldrums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/author\/lawrence-abrams\/\">Lawrence Abrams<\/a> &#8211; As we creep towards the end of the summer, things have started to thankfully slow down a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cyberconservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hacker-4031973__340.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31831\" width=\"230\" height=\"152\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While there are still plenty of <strong>ransomware<\/strong> attacks going around, the amount we had seen last month against schools, companies, and government agencies has definitely decreased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest news was a wiper called\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/germanwiper-ransomware-erases-data-still-asks-for-ransom\/\" target=\"_blank\">GermanWiper<\/a>\u00a0targeting Germany and pretending to be a ransomware. Otherwise, for this week we mostly saw new variants of existing <strong>ransomware<\/strong> being released.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/the-week-in-ransomware-august-9th-2019-summer-doldrums\/&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYESoTOTQ5MTc3MTg0NTM5NDcwMDQwMzIaZjk1ZDdkNTc3NTkyZGUyMTpjb206ZW46VVM&amp;usg=AFQjCNGRw6p15o646LyHfcRttJT9-AQfYA\">Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Lawrence Abrams &#8211; 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, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/23\/the-week-in-ransomware-august-9th-2019-summer-doldrums\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[636],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-31830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ransomware","tag-ransomware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}