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RansomwareNewz – The Rocky, Locky Horror Picture Show

Aftermath, Prevention

Welcome to the RansomwareNewz Desk, where we’ll be bringing you all you need to stay up to date and informed about everything ransomy, wary and newsy. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE First, it’s off to Russia via New York and The Late Show, where last week, host Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue contained a piece about hackers. Save for the Hillary Clinton/DNC e-mail leak and one more minor news story which escapes us, it’s the first time (we can think of) that hackers have been given airtime on a major chat show. The news was that Russian cyberspying groups like Energetic Bear

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Are Targeted Million Dollar Attacks the Future of Ransomware?

Aftermath

  In a week that saw WannaCry rear its ugly head again, causing Honda to shut down production at a major plant near Tokyo and hacking group “CyberTeam” claim responsibility for what looked to be a DDoS attack on Skype, one story demanded our attention more than any other. South Korean web hosting company, Nayana was hit by ransomware on June 10th. Over the next two weeks, it emerged that 153 of the Linux servers hosted by Nayana were affected, locking up almost 3,500 client websites. Ouch! The hackers demanded a king’s ransom of 550 bitcoins ($1.62 million) but Nayana

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