Tag: Russia

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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RansomwareNewz Desk – Equifax, Russian Kangaroos, NATO

Current News

Welcome, welcome, welcome to RansomwareNewz straight outta Boston. We begin with news about Equifax, where things have gone from bad to worse to Dante’s ninth level of hell! No, RWNZ hasn’t recruited John Oliver but (trendsetters that we are!) hacking stories have become the subject of entire episodes of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. In case you missed Sunday night’s report on the Equifax data breach which placed 140 million Americans in danger of identity theft, here it is in its full glory: WHEN WILL THEY LEARN? And this news just in – Equifax has been hit again, this time by malvertising. Security

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First Ransomware. Then Cyber Warfare!

Aftermath

Societies need enemies, so the governments of the world must have real and invented boogeymen – the idea being that we all play happy families. It doesn’t work and yet, from the 1950’s through to 1990, The Russians were deemed a threat to our very existence. Then, Communism was the enemy. Then it was the war on drugs and terror. Now it’s Rogue Nations like North Korea. Next, it will be aliens. The truth of the matter is, no government was ever gonna launch a nuclear strike first, not even Kim Jong-Un or Donald Trump – that would just be

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