Tag: Locky

RansomwareNewz Desk – Bad Rabbit Special

Current News

Welcome to RWNZ outta Boston where, of course, the big ransomware news of the last 48 hours is Bad Rabbit – the latest cyberattack that’s sweeping across Europe. After parts of the United Kingdom were recently battered by Hurricane Ophelia and Storm Brian, IT professionals are battening down the hatches at the prospect of another huge ransomware attack. But could Bad Rabbit rival WannaCry and Petya/NotPetya in size and scope, or is it a storm in a teacup? Let’s take a closer look by jumping… DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE The Bad Rabbit outbreak appears to have started in Russia and

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Fight Ransomware like you’re defending your Castle

Prevention

If you haven’t already noticed, we love our metaphors here at RansomwareNewz HQ and often find the easiest way to explain security and tech issues to laymen is by including easily understandable conversational landmarks – often sports or TV or movie analogies. And, after the authors of the Locky malware peppered their VB script with Game of Thrones references, that got us thinking… Ransomware is, after all, the modern-day equivalent of catapulting a dead, decaying cow into your computer network. BEWARE OF GEEKS BEARING GIFTS Before you go thinking that we’ve lost the plot, the briefest of history lessons – Some

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RansomwareNewz Desk – Equifax And FedEx Are Fed Up

Aftermath

FEDEX ARE THOROUGHLY FED UP FedEx may have acquired Dutch shipping company TNT Express last year, but we here at the RansomwareNewz Desk have always wanted FedEx to merge with rivals UPS so they can re-name their company in line with how their parcel-less customers often feel – FedUp.  Their employees look more happy with the news, though… Joking aside, FedEx now have a much better reason to be fed up – the Memphis-based delivery company has revealed that this summer’s NotPetya ransomware attack (which used a Windows exploit stripped from an NSA leak) that affected newly acquired TNT Express

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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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